Canadian State Trials IV : Security, Dissent, and the Limits of Toleration in War and Peace, 1914-1939
Files
Available in the Osgoode Hall Law School Library
Description
This latest collection in our State Trials series, the fourth, looks at the legal issues raised by the repression of dissent from the outset of World War One through the 1930s and the Great Depression. Topics covered include enemy aliens, conscription and courts-martial in World War I, the trials following the Winnipeg General Strike, sedition laws and prosecutions generally and their application to labour radicals in particular, the 1931 trial of the Communist Party leaders, and the religious-political dissent of the Doukhobors. All regions of the country are covered, and special attention given in one essay to Quebec’s repression of radicalism.
The volume focusses attention on older manifestations of contemporary dilemmas: what are the acceptable limits of dissent in a democracy, and what limits should be placed on state responses to perceived challenges to its authority.
ISBN
9781442631083
Publication Date
2015
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
City
Toronto
Keywords
Political crimes and offences; Canada; Trials (Political crimes and offenses); Sedition
Repository Citation
Tucker, Eric, "Canadian State Trials IV : Security, Dissent, and the Limits of Toleration in War and Peace, 1914-1939" (2015). Books. 321.
https://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/faculty_books/321
Comments
Wright, Barry, Eric Tucker, and Susan Binnie, eds. Canadian State Trials IV: Security, Dissent, and the Limits of Toleration in War and Peace, 1914-1939. Toronto, Ontario: University of Toronto Press, 2015. Print.