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Evidence of the influence of Freemasonry of the Grand Orient of France on Canadian politics and French

Note: the law on archives of Quebec banned the publication of names of people but 30 years after their deaths.
names mentioned in this blog thus come from other sources: newspaper articles, business register, etc..

Source: Leon Patenaude funds JZ, Centre d'archives de Montréal.

JZ Leon Patenaude was a personal friend of Pierre Elliot Trudeau (Globe and Mail, June 28, 1977) and was a member of the board of Canadian unity. He was also a notorious member of the lodge Montcalm Grand Orient of France in Montreal. However:

- Patenaude in 1976 founded the Canadian Institute for Democratic Action.
This organization gave the goal to "develop and improve the laws." The struggle for secularism in Quebec given as an example.
Among the participants of the meeting of May 11, 1976 there are two members of the Parti Quebecois (including a future minister), a senator and a great journalist of the newspaper La Presse. The rest of the participants is composed of members of the lodge Montcalm. (P30-b1-c1)

Comment: So in 1976, a deputy minister and a future PQ discussing bills with notable Federalists and a group of Freemasons?

-In a cable dated March 2, 1978 and addressed to the Grand Orient de France in Paris, Patenaude asked the Grand Orient to hold an emergency meeting "to get high importance affair" between a minister and a Canadian federal French government minister. (B1-c21-p30)

Comment: Patenaude federal official who was at that time had the power to get a meeting between two ministers from a group of Freemasons??

-In a letter dated 31 August 1978 and addressed a federal minister, Patenaude hopes that political personalities and senior-the public servants involved in the Congress of the League of Universal Masons stating that the Canadian sections of the League "work for national unity." (P30-b2-c16)

-In a letter dated November 22, 1978, addressed to an officer of the French League World Freemasons, Patenaude complains of the lodge Freedom of Montreal he describes as "a group composed of highly politicized extremist separatist very marked partisan politics and most of all anti-English ". (P30-b2-c1)
Members Freedom of the box were not invited to the congress of the League.
A project of Liberty was to create a Greater East Quebec but Patenaude (who knew everything that happened in that dressing room) has thwarted their plans by setting itself the Grand Orient of Quebec and obtaining the patent.
Today, the great East Quebec no longer exists but has a Big East cons of Canada ...