The final volume of the Osgoode Society’s Canadian State Trials series sheds light on the legal issues surrounding perceived security threats in Canada in the twentieth century.

Barry Wright is a professor emeritus of law and history at Carleton University.
Binnie Susan :

Susan Binnie is an independent scholar living in Toronto.
Tucker Eric :

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

"From trials that were sensational at the time to those ignored for decades and little known still today, Canadian State Trials Volume V illuminates significant political cases that Canada – with its self-image as a decent state that does not stoop to persecute – prefers to forget. Read it and remember."

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

"This collection of essays is an impressive final volume in the monumental Canadian State Trials series. The contributors to Canadian State Trials Volume V explore state responses to protest, violence, and espionage, demonstrating how law served as both a tool of repression and resistance. The volume includes definitive analyses of the role of the law in several key events in Canadian history, including the Gouzenko Affair, FLQ Crisis, and Oka."

Gregory S. Kealey, Professor Emeritus of History, University of New Brunswick:

"This fifth and final volume of the extraordinary Canadian State Trials project is as timely as the series’s origins in the 1970 October Crisis and P.E. Trudeau’s invocation of the War Measures Act. Justin Trudeau’s recent use of the similar, albeit heavily amended, Emergencies Act raises fundamental human rights issues which are fully examined here as in previous Canadian State Trials works. This latest volume combines critical interdisciplinary scholarship with historical and legal analysis of the highest order."