Canadian State Trials, Volume V : World War, Cold War, and Challenges to Sovereignty, 1939–1990

The final volume of the Osgoode Society’s __Canadian State Trials__ series sheds light on the legal issues surrounding perceived security threats in Canada in the twentieth century. Contents 5 Foreword 7 Preface 9 Acknowledgments 15 Contributors 19 Introduction: World War, Cold War, and Challenges to Sovereignty 23 1 Constitutional Wrongs: The Wartime Constitution and Japanese Canadians, c. 1942–6 66 2 Prosecuting Kurt Meyer: The Abbaye d’Ardenne War Crimes Trial 109 3 The Gouzenko Affair: From Star Chamber to the Court Room 147 4 The Enemy Within: A Review and Comparison of Early Cold War Canadian and American Spy Trials 199 5 Labour versus the Injunction: Insights into the Surveillance State and Public Order Policing during the 1966 Lenkurt Electric Strike 250 6 The FLQ and Judicial Guerrilla Warfare, 1963–72 301 7 The 1971 Trial of the Montreal Five: Seditious Conspiracy and the FLQ 326 8 The McDonald Commission Investigates the RCMP Security Service, 1977–83 363 9 Standoffs at Meares and Lyell Islands: Protest, Injunctions, and the Indigenous Land Question in British Columbia, 1984–5 402 10 Sovereignty and Legality in the Pines: The Oka Crisis of 1990 450 11 Epilogue: The Canadian State Trials Series in Retrospect 484 Appendix 1 Previous Titles in the Canadian State Trials Series 529 Appendix 2 Supporting Document: Chapter 1, Adams, Stanger-Ross, and the Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective 533 Appendix 3 Supporting Document: Chapter 3, Whitaker 535 Appendix 4 Supporting Document: Chapter 7, Pacione 537 Index 541 The fifth and final volume of the Canadian State Trials series examines political trials and national security measures during the period of 1939 to 1990. Essays by historians and legal scholars shed light on experiences during the Second World War and its immediate aftermath, including uses of the War Measures Act and the Official Secrets Act with the unfolding of the Cold War and legal responses to the FLQ (including the October Crisis), labour strikes, and Indigenous resistance and standoffs. The volume critically examines the historical and social context of the trials and measures resulting from these events, concluding the first comprehensive series on this important area of Canadian law and politics. The fifth volume's exploration of state responses to real and perceived security threats is particularly timely as Canada faces new challenges to the established order ranging from Indigenous nations demanding a new constitutional framework to protestors challenging discriminatory policing and contesting public health measures. (Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History) And incompetent justice : Legal repsonses to the 1885 Crisis [North-West Rebellions] / Bob Beal and B. Wright -- Another look at the Riel Trial for Treason [Louis Riel] / J.M. Bumstead -- The White Man governs. : The 1885 Indian trials [Indians, First Nation, Aboriginal or Native peoples] / Bill Waiser -- [Securing the dominion] -- High-handed, impolite, and empire-breaking actions : radicalism, anti-imperialism and political policing in Canada, 1860-1914 / Andrew Parnaby, Gregory S. Kealey with Kirk Niergarth -- Codification, public order and the security provisions of the Canadian Criminal Code, 1892 / Desmond H. Brown, B. Wright -- Appendices : Sir John A. Macdonald Fonds ; Archival Sources in Canada for Riel's Rebellion