Padlock Law
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padlock-law-313-7799477
title:
Padlock Law
text:
The Act to Protect the Province Against Communistic Propaganda, commonly known as the "Padlock Law" or "Padlock Act", was a law in the province of Quebec, Canada that allowed the Attorney General of Quebec to close off access to property suspected of being used to propagate or disseminate communist propaganda. The law was introduced by the Union Nationale government of Maurice Duplessis and made it illegal to "use [a house] or allow any person to make use of it to propagate Communism or Bolshevi
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Anti-communist statute passed in Quebec in 1937
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padlock_Law
date created:
2004-03-11T21:37:05Z
date modified:
2024-04-27T11:19:54Z
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13
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