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1970
October Crisis in Canada
During the October Crisis, the Quebec Liberation Front (FLQ), a
militant separatist group, kidnaps Quebec labor minister Pierre
Laporte in Montreal. Five days earlier, FLQ terrorists had seized
British trade commissioner James Richard Cross. In exchange for
the lives of the men, the FLQ demanded the release of two dozen
FLQ members convicted of various charges, including kidnappings,
bombings, and arms theft.
Believing the situation to be out of control, the Quebec
government asked the Canadian federal government to send troops
to the French-Canadian province to help maintain order. Canadian
Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau responded by proclaiming the War
Powers Act, under which the FLQ was banned, some civil liberties
were suspended, and thousands of troops were sent to Montreal. In
a series of police raids, more than 400 Quebec separatists were
taken into custody and held without charges. On October 18, the
body of Pierre Laporte was found in the trunk of a car near
Saint-Hubert Airport. The apartment building holding Cross and
his kidnappers was discovered in late November. After a tense
standoff, the kidnappers agreed to release Cross in return for
safe passage to Cuba for themselves and their families. Cross was
freed on December 4 after the group arrived in Cuba. Laporte's
kidnappers were later arrested and convicted of kidnapping and
murder.
The October Crisis was a rare period of violence during Quebec's
Quiet Revolution, an otherwise peaceful effort by Quebecois
politicians to gain greater autonomy within the English-dominated
federation of Canada.
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