In 1969, in the name of development modernity and Canadian unity, the government of Pierre Elliott Trudeau undertook the most extensive land expropriation in the history of the country, to build the largest airport in the world, Mirabel. The Canadian government expropriated approximately twelve thousand people and ninety-seven thousand acres of land for the project. Mirabel was a dramatic failure, for social, political, and economic reasons. This article focuses on the development discourse that the state used to promote its ambitions, the relation that expropriated farmers had to their private property, and the slow but eventually strong and successful resistance of owners whose lands the state requisitioned.

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米拉贝尔机场：以发展、现代化和加拿大统一的名义

1969年，以发展现代化和加拿大统一的名义，皮埃尔·埃利奥特·特鲁多政府进行了该国历史上最大规模的土地征用，以建造世界上最大的机场——米拉贝尔机场。加拿大政府为该项目征用了大约一万二千人和九万七千英亩的土地。出于社会、政治和经济原因，米拉贝尔是一个巨大的失败。本文重点关注国家用来推动其雄心壮志的发展话语、被征用农民与其私有财产的关系，以及被国家征用土地的所有者缓慢但最终强大而成功的反抗。