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This short extract for educational purposes from a much longer interview with Adrien Arcand in 1962 contains urgent evidence that Arcand and his men, his Legionnaires of the National Unity Party of Canada were in fact innocent.
They were arrested in May and June of 1940 by the RCMP on charges the Crown never pursued before the Court, and they were never put on trial — They were not plotting the overthrow of the Canadian State as alleged by Judge Rodolphe DeSerres, proprio motu, and no such charge had ever been laid by the Crown.
The press and media laid the charge, indeed they trumped it up in headlines and false accusations going back to at least early 1938, according to newspaper clippings I retrieved at newspapers.com.
The papers were biased, the “journalists” lied, brazenly at times, fabricating even the fine details of this imaginary plot of Arcand to arm his Legionnaires with imported weapons (they had no weapons) and perpetrate a coup on the country.
Arcand should have sued the press at least at the start of 1938. I don’t know of a single law suit he ever brought against the press; but in 1938, at least, he consulted the Quebec legal authorities about a defamation suit against one paper, the one that had pretended he was importing arms from the USA.
And please note that Arcand’s party headquarters across Canada, and the homes of the leadership of the National Unity Party in every province, were all raided by the RCMP. The only thing the federal police got in these raids was personal correspondence and 6 truckloads of pamphlets, no doubt mostly The Key To The Mystery, which the left-wing was desperate to confiscate and shred.
No arms, no weapons, were ever recovered! For had that been the case, the Crown would have said so in its exhibits that it concocted, but it did not say a word!
So where is the sense of Judge Rodolphe DeSerres saying he saw a conspiracy to overthrow the Canadian State? With what? Pamphlets? Did the judge really think that Arcand and his men would confront the Canadian troops and beat them over the head with pamphlets? If the troops had read the pamphlets, it might have done them some good, though.
Without proof of arms, the allegation of a coup is farcical.
It should be noted that due to technical problems, this clip, screen-captured from the original in segments, is a little bit slower than the original. Arcand and his interviewer spoke slightly quicker.
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