France Up To Its Old Tricks In Canada, page 2

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It's been a while since I read the Bosher book, but if memory serves, Marcel Cadieux was one of the important figures who tumbled to what the French were up to and was instrumental in sabotaging the saboteurs.

He had an illustious career as a Canadian diplomat.

There is a short biographical note about him in Wikipedia:

en.wikipedia.org...

He joined the Department of External Affairs in 1941, served as senior adviser to Canadian members of the International Control Commission in Vietnam in 1954, and became the legal advisor to the Department of External Affairs in 1956. A professor of international law at the University of Ottawa, he was the first Canadian to sit on the United Nations International Law Commission. From 1964 to 1970 he was Under-Secretary of State for External Affairs. He was Canada's first francophone Ambassador to the United States from 1970 to 1975, and Head of the Canadian Mission to the European Communities from 1975. He was appointed to advise the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) in 1978.

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Here is a short online review of The Gaullist Attack on Canada 1967-1997:

www.torontopubliclibrary.ca...

Bosher (York Univ.), a distinguished student of the ancien regime, discusses French meddling in Canadian affairs, a continuing phenomenon since the 1960s. Bosher is a long way out of his field, to be sure, but he has tracked down some splendid sources, including the hitherto closed papers of Canadian diplomat Marcel Cadieux, and he makes a compelling, if not wholly convincing, case concerning French activities and the reasons behind them. Essentially, Bosher argues, Gaullist hatred of the Anglo-Saxons drives the French efforts, and Paris, seeing Canada as in Washington's pocket, hopes to split off Quebec into an independent French-speaking state. What this might do to Quebec, let alone Canada, scarcely crosses the French mind, according to Bosher. That roughly 100,000 Canadians--the vast majority English-speaking--died to liberate France in two world wars matters not a whit; that Quebec opinion in WW II was heavily Petainist is similarly immaterial. Raisons d'etat, misguided though they may be, explain much. Bosher's account is perhaps more conspiratorial in tone than it needs to be, but it succeeds nonetheless. Perhaps it will be translated into French and sold in Quebec City and Paris, where it might have some impact. General readers; graduate, faculty. J. L. Granatstein York University

The book is availabe at many public libraries, including the Toronto Public Library, but I don't know of a digital edition.

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