Its style belongs to the Quebec cinéma direct school of filmmaking.
Adérald Godbout was the Second World War–era Quebec head of government, and the great-uncle of the director.
Godbout advances some theories to explain why his great-uncle was forgotten in the collective memory of the Quebecers.
Quebec nationalists, at the time, opposed conscription, which they saw as a British imperialist manoeuvre of English Canada to defend the Empire.
[1] Like other documentaries of his (The Black Sheep, for example), Traître ou Patriote showcases Jacques Godbout's own style of putting himself into the narrative thread: he sets up scenes where he researches his subject and interacts with others, to help push the documentary forward.