June 27: ‘The devil indeed would be in the details of any agreement with China.’ Can Canada trust China? Plus other letters to the editor
: There are serious questions raised by David Shribman’s consideration of Pierre Trudeau’s invocation of the War Measures Act in 1970.
The first and most important is whether there was an insurrection going on. Was use of the act justified? No such evidence was provided, certainly not by Mr. Trudeau when Tommy Douglas asked to see it before that fateful parliamentary vote. Yes, there was illegal and morally unacceptable violence, but provisions in our criminal code would have been sufficient to deal with the situation.Mr. Shribman suggests that Mr.
We, the New Democratic Party MPs, voted for the preservation of civil liberties and against invoking the act. It was the most important vote I ever cast, and history would show that we were right.As a member of The Globe and Mail parliamentary bureau at the time, I had a first-hand look at the imposition of the War Measures Act in 1970. Despite Pierre Trudeau’s braggadocio, he was at first reluctant to use the law.
At the time, the measure was controversial, but looking back, it stopped the kidnappings immediately and ended the cycle of separatist violence by the Front de libération du Québec. And in his next mandate, Mr. Trudeau brought in a less draconian law – the Emergency Planning Order, which eventually led to the Emergencies Act – to deal with any future domestic disruption of civil society.
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