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“Conscription Will Destroy Our People”
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In this chapter, Bouthillier traces the conscription crisis of 1939 to 1942, which deepened the divide between English- and French-speaking Canada, and follows Trudeau’s first public political address.
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Guy Bouthillier
Guy Bouthillier studied Law at McGill University and obtained a PhD from Sciences Po Paris. He is Honorary Professor of Political Science at the Université de Montréal where he taught for 30 years. Author of several books on politics, history, and language in Quebec and Canada, he edited, with Édouard Cloutier, Pierre Trudeau’s Darkest Hour, War Measures 1970 (Baraka Books, 2020), an annotated collection of texts and essays by eminent English-speaking Canadians critical of Trudeau’s use of the War Measures. Guy Bouthillier lives in Montreal.
