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New Quebec laws heading towards a police state

By MEL DOIG

The first sinsister measures for the creation of a police state have been put into éffect by the Union Nationale government of Quebec. Special police search patrols have been formed to stop and search individuals and vehicles without warrant. Enabling legislation is to be provided giving the “right” to municipal police forces to decide whether or not outdoor demonstrations can be held

Any demonstration that does not gadhere strictly to police directives would be illegal and subject, according to Quebec's Minister of Justice Remi Paul, to ‘“‘the reading of the riot act.” These are but two of the ten points announced by the Quebec government for combatting ‘‘terrorism.”’ But the savage thrust of the new legislation is not aimed at what government spokesmen have hysterically denounced as “bearded little Castros, Anglo- Saxon, non-French-Canadian, or vermin-infested invertebrates, revolutionary : extremists.”

The real terror contemplated by the “‘law and order’’ forces in the Union Nationale and elsewhere is aimed at organized labor, at the democratic move- ments of the people of Quebec. It seeks through police state measures to terrorize and to split these forces for progress.

The Minister of Labor, Maurice Bellemarre, made. this clear before the 10-point pro- gram was’ made public. Promising ‘‘sensational an- nouncements that will permit Quebec to resume with vigor its forward march within the framework of Canadian confederation,’ Mr. Bellemarre said that ‘‘if peace is to prevail in the field of labor .. . it is necessary to put an end to acts of terrorism.”

Boasting that ‘tin Quebec we have all we need to live happily,” Quebec’s prime minister, Mr. Bertrand, first de- clared the government's intention ‘‘to answer force with force.’’ He and his ministerial colleagues have made considtrable efforts to persuade the people that the ‘‘special measures to be undertaken by the police’ are directed to “collar those responsible for the new bombings,”’ that they are aimed not against separatists in general but at ‘‘revolu- tionaries.”’ Mr. Bertrand added, “Otherwise those who have money to invest won't come to Quebec.”

The general secretary of the Quebec Federation of Labor. Claude Merineau came right to the heart of the matter in his

comment. “I fear,” he told a Montreal newspaper. “we are witnessing abuses of power touching the right to

demonstrate, mainly when it concerns demonstrations related to strikes.”

_. However disquieting, it must be noted that Merineau has been the only organized labor leader in Quebec to speak this way. Fre- quest requests from the Can- adian Tribune to officers of the Confederation of National Trade Unions for an official statement of its position on Quebec’s police state measures have elicited no response other than no comment.” The CNTU has issued no statement to any of Quebec’s publicity media.

The president of the Montreal Labor Council (QFL), Armand Jolicoeur, in a telephone inter- view with this Tribune re- presentative, said he is against a police state — ‘I don’t want to see everyone stopped and arrested’’ — but that he has no quarrel with the “special police measures” if they are used only against those who engage “in acts of violence.”

The apparent aloofness and equivocation of certain leading sections of Quebec organized labor to the serious dangers now confronting it were echoed by the director of publicity of the QFL, Mr. Noel Perusse. When asked if Claude Merineau had spoken for the QFL, or if that trade union centre had itself issued a statement, Mr. Perusse replied that the QFL general secretary ‘‘had spoken for himself while I was away,” and that the QFL had no official state: ment to make.

The attack by the forces of .

reaction, of monopoly, appears temporarily to have caught much of Quebec’s trade union movement off guard.

The danger to democracy in Quebec today comes not only from this latest savagely repressive legislation of the Union Nationale government. It comes from all the self-styled “Jaw and order” forces in the political structures of monopoly.

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Following Lesage’s resigna- tion one of the leading Quebec Liberal spokesman. Yves Michaud. was asked in a press conference to comment on what the main issues of his party's leadership contest would be. As the first of five such issues, he cited that of “public security. of law and order.”

One of the principal contend- ers for the leadership of Quebec Liberals is a former Minister of Justice, Claude Wagner. re- membered for the brutal police attacks in Quebec City on the occasion of Queen Elizabeth's visit to that city.,

As for the ‘‘independantiste’’. petty bourgeois party of Rene Levesque, the Parti Quebecois. it has refused to make any com- ment on the latest attack on democracy in Quebec.

The Creditistes are about to be-

come a Quebec political party. Their leader, Real Caouette. has announced that Gaston Tremblay is to be his right-hand man in Quebec. Tremblay. until he joined the Creditistes two months ago. was the single member in Quebec's National Assembly (formerly the Legisla-

ture) representing the apparently-dissolved. neo- fascist, clerico-corporatist Na- tionalist Christian Party whose claim to 150.000 paid members no Quebec political com- mentator ever challenged.

‘*A bomb, a rope’ is the slogan announced by a former officer of the Royal 22nd Regiment (the “Van Doos’’) for his new politi- cal party. the Quebec Canadian Party. Captain Louis Rene Drapeau is inviting ex- servicemen to join him, ostensibly to fight “separatists. terrorists. unilinguists and horrible renegades of our_ society.”

_.But in Quebec today. scratch the most shrill or the most devious advocate of “law and order’’, of ‘‘public security”. and you get the same reflex — anti- labor, anti-democratic. The doughty Quebec Canadian Party demands that all trade union leaders must have a card of authorization from the Quebec government. More, that identi- fication cards are to be obligatory for everyone over 18 years of age.

Monopoly is out to check or to smash all democratic opposition to what Canada’s Prime Minister Trudeau calls the *‘anti- inflation’ program. It has struck hard already in Quebec.

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