Introduction:
The October crisis was a cause of an uproar of a group of Quebec nationalist who were eager to have a nation within a nation for Quebec.
This crisis was a significant crisis that depicted the conflict between Quebec and Canada in a more disruptive route.
Macleans
- "The War Measures Act made the FLQ retroactively an illegal organization, and memberishop it an indictable offence. Suspected FLQ members could be arrested without a warrant and held for up to 90 days, the first 21 of them without a charge." 69
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- " to protect tour democratic system" trudeau states for war measures act 69
- " police and soldiers had arrested and detained hundreds of suspects. Some were FLQ sympathizers, but many had no links .includ[ing] singer Pauline Julien, poet and journalist Gerald Godin.." 69
- Opposition leader Robert Stanfelid said: " what I consider to be the small importance Canadians seemed to attach to civil liberties and the willingness with which they were prepared to see the government kick Quebcers around"70
- As La Presse " 87 per cent of Candians support the application' of the [War Measures] act and added that the support given to Trudeau and Bourassa came almost equally from francophones and Anglophones.."71
- "Three decades later, hindsight offers much more divided opinions no organized network looking to overthrow the established order [and] [a]nother is the belief that Ottawa used the kidnappings as a pretext to stamp out separatism"