Let’s set the record straight about October 1970

Looking back, as someone who was there and both reported and participated in Quebec politics for decades, it annoys me when journalists who were not there get it wrong about the period.

Then-prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau speaks to reporters in Ottawa about the release of James Cross in December 1970. We should ensure our history is written with facts, not conjecture, writes Andrew Caddell, and another Trudeau being in power doesn’t mean the events of half a century ago should be used as a cudgel to attack him or his father’s legacy.Library and Archives Canada photograph

Opinion

BY ANDREW CADDELL

October 7, 2020

KAMOURASKA, QUE.—Fifty years ago, I was a student in CEGEP in Montreal, sitting in my grandfather's living room in lower Westmount, arguing about Quebec nationalism. Then, a radio bulletin interrupted our argument: British Trade Commissioner James Cross had been kidnapped that morning by the Fron...

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