ANTI-COMMUNIST LAW
THE QUEBEC MEASURE DEFENDED BY PREMIER MONTREAL, Jan. 9. Defending the Quebec anti-Com-munist law, under which premises used to spread Communistic literature are sealed for a year, the Premier (Mr Maurice Duplessis) told the Canadian Club that the danger, now past, was so real that the province was threatened with revolution. Replying to criticism that the padlock law was un-British, he asked: “What about our oaths of loyalty to the King? No loyal British subject and no loyal Canadian can honestly be a Communist.” In reply to the charge that the padlock law attacked free speech, he declared that there was a marked difference between free speech and abuse of the right. “ Nobody is permitted to advocate murder,” he said. “It is our duty as Christians and loyal British subjects to fight Communism. It is the duty of the Dominion Government to fight Communism. When the Dominion failed Quebec was justified in taking a bold stand. Never will Communism gain a foothold in Quebec.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23704, 11 January 1939, Page 9
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