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Title: Pierre Trudeau,Neoliberalism,FLQ, and
Topic: Canadian Politics
Written By: Robin Mathews
Date: Saturday, December 25 at 13:29
A new Quebec novel by Louis Hamelin opens a window wide on State chicanery in the 1970 FLQ crisis.  It suggests a wholly manufactured crisis,a beginning of a New Democracy in Canada governed by elites, Corporations, and a mass media dedicated to 'manufacturing consent'.
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[Individualist]

Ah Robin. Age and irrelevance seem only to stir you to further heights of lunacy.

Your savaging of Trudeau seems to me a classic case of the narcissism of small differences. He was a moderate left internationalist, and you were and are a far-left "nationalist" (more on the quotes later). The two of you are more similar than different, and are both so removed from the current political centre in Canada that you seem little more than different flavours of the same brand.

Of course, your apparent willingness to support a movement aimed at breaking up Canada simply because that movement was "Left" pretty much exposes the falsehood of your own claims of being a nationalist. Quebec nationalism is the only true threat Canada has had (and continues to have) to its own existence as a nation since Confederation, the paranoid fantasies of Red Tories and leftists about American Manifest destiny notwithstanding.

I do not think that the situation with the FLQ warranted the response from Trudeau in terms of the War Measures Act. But I make that judgement from my own current day perspective. Back in 1970, the threat of terrorism, especially in North America, wasn't the daily reality it is today.

Back to you, though. Your willingness to have seen a piece of Canada carved away by Quebecois nationalists (as long as they were left-wing) shows that your political philosophy (if it can truly be called that) is driven not by a love of Canada but by a pathological hatred of liberalism, individualism and capitalism, and most of all the United States of America, the republic which stands for them.

[RickW]

$1:

Quebec nationalism is the only true threat Canada has had (and continues to have) to its own existence as a nation since Confederation, the paranoid fantasies of Red Tories and leftists about American Manifest destiny notwithstanding.

Well THAT certainly is a bunch of hooey. Do you have a random word generator that comes up with the drivel you post?
I offer up this as the "silver spike" through the heart of your ponitifications:
http://ca.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle ... 43927.html
And I really must apologize for not offering up the entire contents of the book, but authors DO insist on selling their publications.

[gaulois]

Howdee folks. It has been a while.

It seems reasonable to assume that the FLQ was well infiltrated by the RCMP, and that there was plenty of r�cup�ration done on what a few folks were scheming. They certainly locked up a whole lot of people and probably created more sympathy to the sovereignty cause, thus justifying the federal Libs. The PQ won a majority government in 1976 a few years later and Canadians had to contend with more federal liberal rats in Ottawa.

Reminds me very much how Bush got reelected after 911...