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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.
List of contents
Foreword
Osgoode Society
Acknowledgments
Preface
Douglas Hay
1. Introduction: World War, Cold War, and Challenges to Sovereignty
Barry Wright, Susan Binnie, and Eric Tucker
2. Constitutional Wrongs: The Wartime Constitution and Japanese Canadians c.1942-1946
Eric M. Adams and Jordan Stanger Ross
3. Prosecuting Kurt Meyer: The Abbaye d’Ardenne War Crimes Trial
Craig Forcese
4. The Gouzenko Affair: From Star Chamber to the Court Room
Reg Whitaker
5. The Enemy Within: Review and Comparison of Early Cold War Canadian and American Spy Trials
Barbara J. Falk and Tyler Wentzell
6. Labour versus the Injunction: Insights into the Surveillance State and Public Order Policing during the 1966 Lenkurt Electric Strike
Chris Madsen
7. The FLQ and Judicial Guerrilla Warfare, 1963-1972
Jean-Philippe Warren
8. The 1971 Trial of the Montréal Five: Seditious Conspiracy and the FLQ
Darren Pacione
9. The McDonald Commission Investigates the RCMP Security Service, 1977-1983
C. Ian Kyer
10. Standoffs at Meares and Lyell Islands, 1984-85: Civil Disobedience and the Indigenous Land Question in British Columbia
Benjamin Isitt
11. Sovereignty and Legality in the Pines: The Oka Crisis of 1990
Mark D. Walters
12. Epilogue: Canadian State Trials in Retrospect
Barry Wright
Appendix: Previous Titles in Series
Supporting Documents
List of Contributors
Index
About the author
Edited by Barry Wright, Susan Binnie, and Eric Tucker
Summary
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.
