The fourth volume in the Canadian State Trials series examines the legal issues surrounding perceived security threats and the repression of dissent from the outset of World War One through the Great Depression.

Barry Wright is a professor emeritus of law and history at Carleton University.
Tucker Eric :

Eric Tucker is a professor emeritus at Osgoode Hall Law School at York University.
Binnie Susan :

Susan Binnie is an independent scholar living in Toronto.

‘Excellent introduction by the editors… Wright, Tucker, and Binnie have done all Canadians a significant service in continuing the work started by Greenwood in the 1990s.’

Scott Eaton:

‘This volume is a superb structural analysis of how Canada’s courts were, and can be, used as state instruments of tyranny. It represents a number of fascinating and valuable questions.’

R. Blake Brown, Department of History, Saint Mary's University:

“An excellent continuation of the Canadian State Trials series, this volume adds considerably to our understanding of the history of state repression, class and labour relations, and the administration of justice.”