Reproduced on this site on September 29, 2001

 

Letter to John Manley

 

September 18, 2001

Mr. John Manley
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Government of Canada
Ottawa, Ontario

Sir:

According to press reports, you approvingly declared that Canadian soldiers “fought in defence of liberty.” I commend you for the use of the term “liberty,” which we seldom hear from the mouths of our rulers. However – and I hope I am wrong – I fear that you have no idea of what this term means.

Yesterday night, on my own land, I walked to my hunting camp. Before leaving my house, I tucked in my pocket the revolver that I bought and registered 20 years ago, and which has been minutely followed by the police (like dogs sniffing a trail) since then. In carrying my registered revolver on my own land, I committed a crime sanctioned by five years in jail, according to your C-17 so-called “law,” adopted in 1991. And this says nothing about the further oppression and humiliations imposed by your C-68 law (so-called).

This is an example of the incredible contempt that your governments have shown for peaceful citizens over the past decades. This illustrates the criminal nature of the laws that you force upon us with your heavily armed praetorian guard. This illustrates the ignominy of being forced to finance with our taxes the denial of the Canadian tradition, and our own oppression and humiliation.

May I suggest that you visit www.pierrelemieux.org/policecanada, and read my upcoming Confessions d’un coureur des bois hors-la-loi (Montréal: Varia, 2001), where I confess other fabricated crimes against your so-called laws? This is my way to fight for the defence of liberty.

Sincerely,

Pierre Lemieux

CC:  Mr. Jean Chrétien, Prime Minister
Ms. Anne McLellan, Minister of “Justice”
Mr. Martin Cauchon, Minister of National Revenue