Too late for Quebec man to seek reparations in court over October Crisis detention in 1970: ruling

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Canada\u0027s Attorney General argued that the questions posed in Gaétan Dostie\u0027s request were theoretical.

“This judgment … makes no negative inference as to the legitimacy of Mr. Dostie’s fight to obtain a form of political reparation for the actions taken against him and against all those who were imprisoned without a warrant and without charge in 1970. No negative conclusions should be drawn as to the seriousness of the trauma he says he suffered,” Justice Sylvain Lussier wrote in a decision delivered on Monday. “But this is no longer for the court to judge.

The federal government, led by then prime minister Pierre Trudeau, invoked the act after diplomat James Cross and Quebec labour minister Pierre Laporte were kidnapped by members of the Front de libération du Québec . Cross survived the kidnapping while Laporte was killed the day after the War Measures Act was invoked.

“The plaintiffs do not deny seeking legal support for their claims which are political in nature, namely to obtain an acknowledgment of the violation of their rights, an apology, and possibly compensation,” Lussier wrote in his decision. But with the act having been repealed more than 30 years ago, Canada’s Attorney General argued, the questions posed by the group’s request were theoretical and a courtroom was not the appropriate forum to address them.

 

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No its not. Trudeau has been apologizing to anyone he can find from any century, so give this guy $10 million and move on to the next virtue.

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