Separatist Surveillance in the PMO 1970 -Aug. 30, 2023
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“I was born in Montreal in 1953 and raised in the then-Anglophone suburb of Beaconsfield from 1955 through 1970. The man you interviewed tonight on AS IT HAPPENS who claims to have discovered that separatists in Quebec were being surveilled during the late sixties and early 1970’s needs to delve more deeply into the historical context for that surveillance before condemning it.
Canada Post mailboxes were being planted with bombs that exploded willy-nilly throughout Anglophone neighbourhoods for years before 1970! Kidnapping was occurring and then the discovery of Minister Pierre Laporte’s body thrown in a car trunk had Montrealers of both languages scared and threatened. The speaker you interviewed actually said that the separatists were not revolutionary terrorists. I disagree! They held Eastern Canada, particularly Montreal and Ottawa, in their grip until they were finally captured.
Travelling on a Greyhound bus between Ottawa and Montreal in October 1970, all buses were routinely stopped at the Quebec-Ontario border where fully armed soldiers came aboard to check identification of all passengers and ask questions about the passengers’ plans and intentions by travelling.
My first year accommodation at Carleton University (Women’s Residence) in Ottawa experienced multiple bomb scares that same Fall. We women had to drop everything or rise from sleeping to evacuate every time. Our campus was the scene of frequent stops by RCMP while students went to classes and we were fully aware that anyone of us could be held without recourse under the War Measures Act.
Your interviewee treated this portion of Canadian history as if it was quite insignificant. In reality, it made the January 6 attempted coup d’état in the USA look like a walk in the park, over in a day!
More research please. I thanked my lucky stars that PM Pierre Trudeau was in power at that time in Canada. As a French-Canadian himself, he was the only leader with enough savoir faire to end this violent attempt at undermining our country. I will never forget how my province of birth was traumatized by those savages. I’m grateful that the Prime Minister was more aware than most of what those angry, violent individuals were capable and therefore, kept an ear to the ground!!”
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