CANA 1F91 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: James Cross, War Measures Act, Pierre Laporte

• School: Brock University
• Department: Canadian Studies
• Course: CANA 1F91
• Professor: Maureen Connolly

Document Summary

Separatism, terrorism and national (dis)unity: the flq crisis lecture 5. Introduction: the political and ethical challenges of terrorism. Terrorism defined as a group or individual that uses violence to undermine the political view of a government and nation. Intimidating a nation in hopes of control to revolutionize. Terrorism is not canadian, its unfamiliar with canadians but there are instances such as the explosion on the brock monument. Try to use racism to explain for terrorism in canada, as they don"t believe. (cid:498)mis-remembering(cid:499) is used as a technique to make sense of these acts of that canadians are terrorists violence. English and french canadians fighting over quebec. Entire culture and society was going to be loss. Riel is the true hero as he led a violent revolution against the canadian government. Remember their discontent and their cultural and poltical roots. Post ww2: from charles degaulle to the license plate. Comparing english and french-canadian idea on independence.