'The man who filmed the Montebello provocateurs'
Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 4:30 pmDecember 5, 2007
Dear chapter activists,
As reported in today's Globe and Mail, "Paul Manly's five-minute, 23-second video clip of a confrontation during a summer protest in Quebec is a compelling piece of theatre...Mr. Manly, a 43-year-old Nanaimo filmmaker, captured the scene (of agents provocateurs) on a high-definition camcorder while making a documentary...Mr. Manly travelled to cover the protests against a summit of the leaders of Canada, Mexico and the United States held at a luxury resort at Montebello, Que., in August. He rode a bus with members of the Council of Canadians, which he has since joined, a group critical of trade talks taking place without input from ordinary citizens."
The article concludes with, "Mr. Manly thinks there should be an inquiry into police activity at Montebello, a demand repeated in the House of Commons yesterday by his MP, Jean Crowder (NDP - Nanaimo-Cowichan). Rocks were thrown that day and he wonders who launched them. Could be protesters. Could be cops. Who knows?"
The Council of Canadians has written Prime Minister Stephen Harper demanding that, "a judicial inquiry be established under the Inquiries Act with respect to the planning and conduct of police and security operations for the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) summit that was held in Montebello, Quebec on August 20-21, 2007...For us, the deplorable conduct of police as agents provocateurs is consistent with other efforts to squelch attempts to engage your government in meaningful debate about crucial public policy issues that bear directly on the future of Canada."
Our letter demanding an inquiry can be read at
http://www.canadians.org/DI/documents/SPP_inquiry_1007.pdf.
Paul's 'Stop the SPP protest in Montebello - Union Leader stops provocateurs' YouTube video can be viewed from our website at
http://canadians.org/integratethis/summit/index.html.
Paul has also just released a new edit that clearly shows undercover Sureté de Quebec officers provoking a line of police officers at
http://www.canadiansnanaimo.org/media/Inquiry%20evidencesmall.mov.
To see our August 23, 2007 'ACTION ALERT: Demand answers about 'agent provocateurs' in Montebello', please go to
http://canadians.org/action/2007/23-Aug-07.html.
The full Globe and Mail article, 'The man who filmed the Montebello provocateurs' by Tom Hawthorn, can be read at
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20071205.BCHAWTHORN05/TPStory/National.
Thanks,
Brent
Brent Patterson
Director of Campaigns, Organizing,
& the Blue Planet Project
The Council of Canadians
700-170 Laurier Avenue West
Ottawa, Ontario K1P 5V5
1-800-387-7177 ext. 291
bpatterson@canadians.org
www.canadians.org
Dear chapter activists,
As reported in today's Globe and Mail, "Paul Manly's five-minute, 23-second video clip of a confrontation during a summer protest in Quebec is a compelling piece of theatre...Mr. Manly, a 43-year-old Nanaimo filmmaker, captured the scene (of agents provocateurs) on a high-definition camcorder while making a documentary...Mr. Manly travelled to cover the protests against a summit of the leaders of Canada, Mexico and the United States held at a luxury resort at Montebello, Que., in August. He rode a bus with members of the Council of Canadians, which he has since joined, a group critical of trade talks taking place without input from ordinary citizens."
The article concludes with, "Mr. Manly thinks there should be an inquiry into police activity at Montebello, a demand repeated in the House of Commons yesterday by his MP, Jean Crowder (NDP - Nanaimo-Cowichan). Rocks were thrown that day and he wonders who launched them. Could be protesters. Could be cops. Who knows?"
The Council of Canadians has written Prime Minister Stephen Harper demanding that, "a judicial inquiry be established under the Inquiries Act with respect to the planning and conduct of police and security operations for the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) summit that was held in Montebello, Quebec on August 20-21, 2007...For us, the deplorable conduct of police as agents provocateurs is consistent with other efforts to squelch attempts to engage your government in meaningful debate about crucial public policy issues that bear directly on the future of Canada."
Our letter demanding an inquiry can be read at
http://www.canadians.org/DI/documents/SPP_inquiry_1007.pdf.
Paul's 'Stop the SPP protest in Montebello - Union Leader stops provocateurs' YouTube video can be viewed from our website at
http://canadians.org/integratethis/summit/index.html.
Paul has also just released a new edit that clearly shows undercover Sureté de Quebec officers provoking a line of police officers at
http://www.canadiansnanaimo.org/media/Inquiry%20evidencesmall.mov.
To see our August 23, 2007 'ACTION ALERT: Demand answers about 'agent provocateurs' in Montebello', please go to
http://canadians.org/action/2007/23-Aug-07.html.
The full Globe and Mail article, 'The man who filmed the Montebello provocateurs' by Tom Hawthorn, can be read at
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20071205.BCHAWTHORN05/TPStory/National.
Thanks,
Brent
Brent Patterson
Director of Campaigns, Organizing,
& the Blue Planet Project
The Council of Canadians
700-170 Laurier Avenue West
Ottawa, Ontario K1P 5V5
1-800-387-7177 ext. 291
bpatterson@canadians.org
www.canadians.org