Word: quebecers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Catholic Church considers its current war against Communism as moral, not partisan. As vigorous an anti-Communist as any churchman in North America is His Eminence Jean Marie Rodrigue Cardinal Villeneuve, Archbishop of Quebec. No believer in freedom of the press, where it "accords the license to teach all error, gossip all calumny, and provide revolutionaries with a means to sing the benefits of revolution." Cardinal Villeneuve has been credited with suggesting Quebec's "Padlock Law." By this statute the Attorney General (Premier Maurice Duplessis ) may have any individual's home raided, any organization's office raided...
...majority felt that to hear Tim Buck speak would be quite legal, but the University Counsel had given his opinion that such a meeting would be in contravention to the Provincial Padlock Law which declares the propagation of Communism illegal in the Province of Quebec...
Another resolution, expressing the Union's belief that the law was illegal, declared that "a written request be sent the Attorney-General at Quebec asking for the law's repeal and that Premier King be asked to disallow...
...Buck who was to have spoken next Monday was that it would be in direct violation of the law, and that McGill students were above all law abiding. According to a law of the Provincial Legislature it is illegal for any person to propagate Communism in the Province of Quebec. Any person so doing is liable to three months to one year in jail as is the owner or proprietor of any hall permitting his building to be used for such purpose...
Biracial conflict in Quebec, result of difference in language and religion, is only a secondary issue. It is an undeniable fact, however, that the Catholic authorities are fearful of the increasing anti-clericalism. For that reason they have aligned themselves with antipathetic monopolistic interests in supporting the fight against liberalism...