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This article presents an analysis of the Canadian government's research and policy-making processes in connection with oppositional political terrorism during the time between the McDonald Report (1977) to the Third Kelly Committee (1999). In particular, the article examines this subject by reviewing popular, scholarly, and governmental literature; relying on personal experiences; and, most importantly, focusing on information gathered during a series of interviews with key informants conducted over a 14-year period. The article concludes with a list of factors that impeded government research and policy development connected with this subject and policy area and a handful of suggestions for overcoming these difficulties which may improve the Canadian government's ability to effectively deal with future acts of terrorism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During the 1960s and early 1970s, there was a rise in oppositional political terrorism in Quebec committed by individuals and organizations that wanted the province to separate from the rest of Canada. This situation provides an excellent case study that demonstrates the phenomenon that many of the same factors that lead to the rise of terrorism also cause its decline. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author presents the methodology and selected results from his original chronology and data set on Canadian terrorist events. The data base covers the years 1960-1985, includes almost 500 separate events, is coded on forty variables, and is more detailed, rigorous, and comprehensive than other compilations. The domestic events were analyzed in order to determine their frequency, nature, severity, scope, range, and intensity. Analyses of selected variables of this data set are presented in this article. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents a research note on radical right-wing violence in Canada. Violence levels and periodicity of radical right-wing violence; Event types and frequency; Reasons for right-wing violence; Threat of radical right-wing violence.