NO CANADA – How the French Tail wags the Canadian Dog

By Larry Middleton

In 1963, the French terrorist group, the FLQ, began their campaign of bombings
against Federal government institutions and Canadian military establishments. The RCMP
informed Pearson that the government of France was involved with the FLQ and the
Separatist movement assisting and possibly financing their activities against Canada.

While Canada is forced to accept bilingualism, Quebec has French language only laws and a Language Police to ensure that all of Quebec conforms to these laws.

“The small influence that I may have as Minister of Justice is a greater influence than I
would have had if I had remained in the province of Quebec. The laws that I propose here not only govern the six million inhabitants of Quebec, but the twenty million inhabitants of Canada.” Pierre Trudeau

Since the early 1960’s, we have seen the rise of the Quebec separatist movement under Jean Lesage, Premier of Quebec, and Rene Levesque who would found the Parti Quebecois with the ideology of separating Quebec from Canada. Involvement of the deGaullist government of France assisted the fledgling Separatist movement in Quebec politics and the Quebecois terrorist group known as the FLQ.

What we did not see, or know, was that there was another separatist ideology that was to rock the very foundation of Canada as we knew it. An ideology that would empower Quebec’s status over Canada and empower the Quebecois through legislation in Federal politics. It would legally give Quebec their own Sovereignty and ultimately control the Canadian nation for Quebec’s benefit. The singular man who had done more for Quebec’s empowerment, than Rene Levesque or Jean Lesage, was Pierre Elliott Trudeau.

Involvement of the deGaullist government of France assisted the fledgling Separatist movement in Quebec politics, and the terrorist group known as the FLQ which also had its own political significance. The Canadian governments own silence during the 1960’s of France’s involvement with the Separatist movement was of significant value to France and the Separatists. In the spring of 1960, four men were asked to meet in a hotel room in Montreal, Quebec. The topic was Quebec Separatism and how to achieve that goal. However, the discussion was a matter of treason and sedition towards the Canadian nation.

The man who asked the four to meet was the Premier of Quebec, Jean Lesage, the four men were Quebec loyalists and friends of Lesage and certainly confidants not to reveal the content of the conversation publicly or privately : Rene Levesque, Jean Marchand, Gerard Pelletier, and Pierre Elliott Trudeau. In ” Rene Levesques Memoirs “, as translated by Philip Stratford, the meeting of the four in Montreal ended with only Rene Levesque joining Jean Lesage in the Quebec provincial government with the agenda of Quebec Separatism, Sovereignty and nationhood for Quebec. Rene Levesque would found the new Quebec political party : Parti Quebecois. Levesque quotes Trudeau’s own words in his book as saying :

“The small influence that I may have as Minister of Justice, is a greater influence than I would have had if I remained in the province of Quebec. The laws that I propose here not only govern the six million inhabitants of Quebec, but the twenty million inhabitants of Canada.”

It is worth mentioning that two other Quebec personalities followed Trudeau into Federal politics, Jean Marchand and Gerard Pelletier. The same two men who would be so influential in the Federal government and were with Pierre Elliott Trudeau at the Separatist meeting in Montreal. Trudeau, Marchand and Pelletier would come to be known in political circles as The Three Wise Men.

In 1963, the French terrorist group, the FLQ, began their campaign of bombings against Federal government institutions and Canadian military establishments. The Canadian government during this reign of terror did virtually nothing to stop the terrorists except denounce the FLQ publicly. The RCMP had informed the Prime Minister, Lester Pearson, that the FLQ terrorists and the Quebec Separatist movement in Quebec provincial politics were the biggest threat to Canada. The RCMP also informed Pearson that the government of France was involved with the FLQ and the Separatist movement assisting and possibly financing their activities against Canada.

Pearson (Prime Minister) and Trudeau ( Minister of Justice and Solicitor General of Canada from 1965 ) did nothing to censure France or forcefully demand that France discontinue their attack on Canada and refrain from assisting Quebec Separatism. The Prime Minister Lester Pearson denounced France’s involvement but feared French retaliation had he closed the French Embassy in Canada and censured deGaulle in pariticular.

In 1970, Trudeau ( Prime Minister of Canada ) initiated his own brand of Separatist ideology. The ideology of separating the English-Canadians power over Canada and Federal politics. At the time the Quebec Separatists were few in number as most French-Canadians in Quebec were loyal to Canada. However, that would change as a result of the ” October Crisis “. The FLQ kidnapped Mr. Crosse, a British diplomat, and later Msr. Laporte, the Quebec Labour Minister in the Quebec provincial government. It was then that Trudeau invoked the ” War Measures Act ” calling out the Army to assist the RCMP and police in Quebec in dealing with the terrorists. The Army was not equipped to handle terrorist activities at that time because of downsizing of the Army and the Army’s capabilities by Trudeau. The Army was relegated to a back-up role ferrying the RCMP and military searchers by helicopter, as well as patrolling the streets of Montreal.

The RCMP knew since 1963 who the principals were inside the FLQ as well as who the Quebec Separatists in the Quebec provincial government were, but little was done because of the inaction of the Federal government during the years leading up to the ” October Crisis ” in 1970. Trudeau from 1965 was the Minister of Justice, and the Solicitor General of Canada until he became the Prime Minister in 1968. Inaction on the part of the Federal government gave rise to greater Separatist activity, whether violent or nonviolent, during the Pearson and Trudeau administrations. During the ensuing crisis in 1970, Trudeau had arrested thousands of innocent French-Canadians yet there were no arrests of the provincial government Separatists nor censure of France’s government or closing of the French Embassy in Canada.

What Trudeau accomplished during this time was to alienate the French-Canadians from Canada and push them towards the Separatists in the provincial government of Quebec. The Quebec government, the Parti Quebecois, played on the feelings of the French-Canadians in Quebec to anger and outright hatred of English-Canadians. Sadly, the French-Canadian bought this distorted logic since Prime Minister Trudeau was a French-Canadian From Quebec and responsible for imposing the ” War Measures Act “. The Crisis had nothing to do with English-Canadians treating our Quebecois counterparts as second class citizens since we also fell under the ” War Measures Act ” at that time. Arrests could have been made even in Western Canada of anyone who spoke out against Trudeau’s draconian measures. Trudeau’s ideology was to push the French-Canadian toward the Separatist movement, empower Quebec, as well and render impotent the power of the English-Canadian majority over Canada, and Quebec, in the Federal government. Rene Levesque could not have accomplished such a feat on his own because so many French-Canadians were suspicious of the Parti Quebecois motives. However, Trudeau’s legacy to Canada was not complete – there was more to come.

Canada’s level of appeasement of Quebec had grown out of the Pearson and Trudeau governments. It was Trudeau’s government that made the decision to Patriate the Constitution . The Constitution was Trudeau’s idea to make a Constitution for Canadians that would be almost entirely Canadian. That was unfortunately a lie as Trudeau desired a Canadian Constitution so that he could control the Federal government through party politics, control of the Senate and Constitutional Amendments.

The basis of the Constitution and Charter of Rights and Freedoms was simply a rehash of the British North America Act ( BNA Act ). The Amendments section of the Constitution was seen as purely Canadian. The Province’s leaders sat down, at the request of Trudeau, and discussed the Amendments formula. The provincial leaders and Trudeau’s decision was to remove the Senates Power of Veto and remove the Referendum of the people. Also, the decision gave the power to change the Constitution, powers of Commons and Senate, and the Law, to the House of Commons. This would effectively make the House of Commons the stronger House in Parliament. It would also make the House of Commons more powerful in the passing of legislation. In effect the Federal government would now be the House of Commons which would set the Commons and its leadership, Prime Minister and Cabinet, above the Law.

The removal of the Senate’s powers is in essence illegal and unconstitutional as the Senate had equal powers under the Constitution. In the BNA Act and the Constitution of 1982 the words : “The power of Parliament is in the hands of the House ( styled ) the Senate, and the House of Commons.” This implies that both Houses are of equal power. Their differences arise from the ability of the House of Commons to bring forth Legislation for reading and approval. The House of Senate, to protect the ideology and concepts of Freedom and Democracy, holds the Veto Power to ensure that the government, or Commons, does not pass Legislation that may be illegal or unconstitutional in nature.

The signing of the Constitution also played a significant part in Trudeau’s well choreographed play, as the signing of the document was done the evening before the Quebec provincial leaders arrived. When the Quebec party arrived they refused to sign the Constitution on the grounds that Quebec did not receive any Special Status as a Distinct Society. Trudeau, of course, knew this would happen and that is why he pushed the Province’s to accept the Amendments Section as integral to the Constitution, and for the Province’s to sign the Constitution the night before the Quebec party was to arrive.

In the Amendments Section, point 47, in effect, gave Trudeau the power to push his own personal agenda on the nation. Point 47 gives the House of Commons the power to enact Legislation without the approval of the Senate. Point 47 effectively removed the Senates Veto Power and the Commons could reduce the Senate’s delaying powers at any time. Through party politics the Leader of a political party who becomes Prime Minister has virtually absolute power over his own party, and with a majority in the Commons can set his own personal agenda on the nation.

The Amendments Section is not Legal or Constitutional from the standpoint that Quebec has never signed the Canadian Constitution. Without Quebec’s signature on the Amendments Section, the Amendments Section would not have passed into Law as a part of the Constitution. The Amendments Section is all that Trudeau is responsible as it gave Trudeau the ability to make Laws, change the Constitution to fit his own French agenda and control all Federal government institutions through Patronage appointments, including the Senate.

Trudeau accomplished total control of the Federal government giving the Federal government the mandate to hire on the basis of Bi-lingualism and Multiculturalism which in effect reads as : hire French first, hire minorities with bilingual skills, hire bilinguals and others ( English ) last, even in Western Canada which is dominated by the English language.

The heads of the Crown Corporations, Military, Federal government and Justices of the Court are top heavy in Francophones, especially from Quebec, and certainly friends of the Prime Minister’s who have appointed them. The same is applied to the Senate and most certainly is a “Conflict of Interest” to have the Leader of the Commons appoint a Member to the Senate.

Another Reason for Quebec not to sign the Constitution is that Quebec’s declaration of independence and Sovereignty is valid, because of their refusal to sign the Constitution which gives Quebec the right to make their own Laws, and a Constitution, for Quebec. The Quebec referendum is simply a game that has allowed our Canadian Prime Ministers from Quebec, for the last 35 of 37 years, to funnel Canadian tax dollars, and initiatives, by the Prime Minister’s own hidden agenda to plunder Canada for the benefit of Quebec and Quebec businesses.

There are, of course, provisions in the Constitution for challenge by individuals, self-interest groups, and Provincial Leaders and Legislators. The Prime Minister knew, being a lawyer, that in order to challenge any Federal Legislation it would have to make its way through the various levels of the legal system. First, this is very costly, so very little Legislation will ever be challenged. Second, the Prime Minister appoints Justices to the Supreme Court. Third, the Federal Cabinet position of Minister of Justice, and solicitor General of Canada, was in the hands of a trusted associate, Jean Chretien, and future Prime Minister of Canada, could simply make a determination : ” that it would not be in the public interest to proceed “. This would eliminate any challenge that the Liberal government did not want to proceed through the Courts.

The Liberals are the strongest Federal party in Canada and it is considered a Private Club. The party is controlled by its Membership. However, there is a small clique within the party Membership that votes for the Leadership of the party and the Liberal Leader eventually becomes Prime Minister. That clique within the party is a small number, 5%, of the 500,000 party Members. Most party members do not bother to vote. In the last Liberal get-together of Policy Deciders some 2,000 Members gathered for a Policy Convention. The Liberal Policy Deciders make up some 0.10% of the party Membership. Anyone can join the party: foreign nationals, foreign business and foreign politicians.

As a singular people, Canadians would think that the political party could not have foreigners active in the Liberal party Membership; however since the political party is a Private Club, the government cannot control who can join a political party. There is only one rule applied here : that the party Leader can decide who can join the Liberal party and decide who cannot join. His own personal or political interests determine Membership.

At the last election Canadians believed that the Liberal run was over because of the scandals that are filling the Canadian news of Liberal excesses, and the “creative accounting” of the Liberal Finance Minister. Chretien and Martin are clearly under the gun. However, we must not forget who appoints the Justices to their positions on the bench. The Adscam Inquiry is currently attempting to determine whether there should be charges laid in connection with Adscam. The outcome is not really in doubt as only minor officials may be called to trial for the Liberal excesses done by Paul Martin, as Finance Minister, and Jean Chretien, as Prime Minister, with the Federal Unity Fund. A fund that is used at the express interest of the Prime Minister and used to funnel Canadian tax dollars to his Quebecois friends and their businesses, without the ability of the government to audit those funds. This is clearly a ” Conflict of Interest ” on the part of the Prime Minister and it is not the first time he has been caught in this kind of conflict.

However, the French elites run our country and there is little we can do about their excesses, except vote them out of office and bring charges of ” Fraud and Conflict of Interest ” later.
The Liberal policies of the Trudeau years with the National Energy Policy cost Alberta 90 Billion dollars taxed from oil revenues – and Quebec has received the lion’s share in equalization payments from the Federal government. The Paul Martin administration will do to the new Newfoundland oil revenues what they did to Alberta. The chief beneficiary will, of course, be Quebec.

Trudeau, Chretien and Martin ( Liberal Party ) and Mulroney ( Conservative party ) are Quebecois and what are called French-Canadian. They have controlled Canada for the last 35 of 37 years and have given greater benefits to Quebec, at the same time as treating English Canadians as second class citizens in a nation that, population wise, we still dominate. However, that may not be for much longer. French and Catholics are coming to Canada in greater numbers and soon we will be minorites in our own country. A country that was built by our forefathers to be Canadian, with English and French as equals. An equality that no longer exists for English-Canadians in Quebec and Canada. While Canada is forced to accept bilingualism, Quebec has French language only laws and Language Police to ensure that all of Quebec conforms to these laws.

Canada has effectively been paying Quebec not to leave Canada. However, they already have. We as Canadians just will not come to that realization that the Constitution was made for Canada, not for Quebec, and it gave all the legitimacy that Quebec required to be their own Sovereign State. Under the BNA Act, Quebec had no such powers to leave the Union of Canada. That could only be accomplished with a new Constitution. We did not make a new Constitution, Trudeau simply added to the original Constitution an Amendments Section that was ultimately to give control of the nation to the person who sits in the Prime Ministers Office. A person who could through his manipulations of our government, give legitimacy to Quebec Separatism then Quebec Sovereignty. Trudeau could also give legitimacy to Quebec’s control of Canada and manipulate the Liberal party to ensure that the Prime Ministers following him come from Quebec. Essentially the political party would not be accountable to Federal government controls of Leadership within the political party or their Membership, because of their Private Club status.

For the last 45 years Canada has undergone extreme changes to our social system, society, religious base, politics, economics, languages, law and Constitution. Pierre Elliott Trudeau did not help build a Canadian nation. He did in fact tear it down, and then replace it with a Francophone dominated nation with his politics and policies. When we Canadian’s walk down the streets of our nation we see the same things everyday: people go to work, people go to play, and people carry on their average lives, oblivious to the realities of our political ideology. However, when we open our eyes and pay attention to the inner workings of our nation in politics, we cannot help but see the excesses of our Francophone Prime Ministers and the culpability of the handful of English-Canadian’s who sit in our Commons, who do nothing to stop those excesses. In point of fact they are usually helping these Francophone Leaders to dismantle our once proud Canadian nation` in favour of a greater Quebec, and the French domination of the country.

In conclusion the nation of Quebec is in effect Sovereign and Free, able to pursue its own course should they desire to do so. They will have the backing of other francophone nations including that of France. Quebec Sovereignty will be recognized by these same French nations when it is the right time for Quebec to declare their own Sovereignty. The nation that is not free is Canada, because our Francophone dictators rule. They have been able to control the entire nation of Canada, because of the political control exerted by Prime Ministers that come from Quebec. It is the English-Canadian majority that must wake up to this reality and set things to right.

Selected Reading
Vive le Quebec libre – Dale Thomson
Render Unto Caesar – Conrad Black
The Gaullist Attack On Canada – 1967-1997 – J.F. Bosher
Rene Levesque Memoirs – translated by Philip Stratford
Staying Canadian : The Struggle Against UDI – Keith Henderson
Oh Canada ! Oh Quebec ! – Mordechai Richler
Jean Chretien : A Legacy of Scandal – Paul , Tuns
His Pride, Our Fall – Kenneth Mcdonald
Bilingual Today, French Tomorrow – J.V. Andrew