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...former Canadian citizen of French extraction fed up with the spineless approach of American authorities to law-and-order, I say "Hurrah for Pierre Trudeau" [Oct. 26]. Here stands a man nine feet tall, unafraid of the maniac minorities. May the powers-that-be in America take heed-while there are still powers-that-be to take heed...
Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau imposed martial law on Canada last Oct. 16, following the kidnappings of Laporte and British Trade Commissioner James R. Cross by two separate cells of the FLQ. The law declared illegal membership in the secessionist group or support for its activities or goals...
...Trudeau proposed last Monday the replacement of the War Measures Act with another law which slightly relaxes police powers and limits the former law's sweeping definition of who is a member of the FLQ. The proposal is expected to take effect sometime this week...
Compared to some of these foreign countermeasures against urban guerrillas, the U.S. is still proceeding mildly, all the loose talk about "repression" notwithstanding. Certainly, given the present political climate in the U.S., no American President could have invoked wartime powers as easily as Trudeau did to summarily outlaw a group of militant dissidents. In the U.S., officials can move strongly against an urban guerrilla threat under the recently enacted Organized Crime Control Law; among other things
Canada and Uruguay have moved decisively, but within constitutional limits, knowing full well that to scrap the constitution à la Brazil would only play into the terrorists' hands by inviting real disorders. In Ottawa, Trudeau's Cabinet is already drawing up new laws to replace the War Measures Act, so as to permit more effective action against civil disorders. With its May 1968 upheaval in mind, France has beefed up its police force, and enacted a tough new anti-demonstration measure known as the "anti-wrecker's law." Under the law, police can arrest anyone standing in sight...