POL 128 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: War Measures Act, Pierre Laporte, Pierre Trudeau

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Politics and Public Administration
• Course: POL 128
• Professor: Laurinda Hartt- Fournier

Document Summary

Les ordres made in 1974 is about the incarceration of innocent civilians during the 1970 october crisi. The film tells the story of five of those incarcerated civilians. It is a reflexive documentary employing actors to recreate the experiences of 50 quebecois interned without charge under the war measures act. Five central characters in les ordres: clermont boudreau (husband/father, factory worker/union steward and taxi driver) Suspended from his job because of his involvement with trade unionism. Obviously said something after relating to being a quebecois. Clermont breaks down in jail and cries in his prison cell, although the camera watches him it then moves away and gives him his privacy (unlike the government and prisons at the time) Interrogated clermont but gave up trying to get him to talk because there was nothing he could say to find him guilty for anything. When released guard mispronounces his name, he angrily corrects him signifying regaining identity.