He continues: "Look, there are people who believe our religion teaches violence, and it doesn't.
He wanted to shape a mind-set, to teach violence when necessary, intestinal fortitude, cunning.
Do they want a sport that teaches violence and brutality, or a sport that teaches fair play, skill acquisition, team play and good sportsmanship?
In the painful tumult of daily protests, an entire generation of Québécois youth is learning a political lesson no class would ever teach: violence underlies all of society's inequalities, and power doesn't yield an inch without a fight.
"My greatest concern," said Sister Camille, a former elementary-school teacher and Brooklyn College professor, "is for children, who see the government employing violence and are being taught that violence will get rid of their problems".
Tens of thousands of army conscripts and police recruits are taught that violence against women is bad.
The book spoke about the traditional masculine gender role, and how men are socialised towards being unemotionally expressive, normalising their own pain and taught that violence is a masculine strategy to resolve conflict or respond to stress.
"They put us in the residential schools that taught us violence and now they take away our children for slapping them the way we were slapped at the schools," said Maureen Knighton, 41, who told other women in a healing group how social workers took two of her three children away for three months in 1996 when her drinking got out of hand.
Either the iron fist stays for ever or, if removed suddenly, it reveals the festering sickness of societies brutalized, traumatized and taught that violence is the sole means of control.
