Flq Crisis

Thesis: The October crisis was a significant event in Canadian history that depicted the conflict between Quebec and Canada, and the different views that Quebecers and English Canada had. This crisis dep

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 Ð'- retroactively Ð'- 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

- CBC television broadcast, "Ð'...referred to Trudeau Ð''the queer' (tapette) and talked of how "the French-speaking majority of Quebec is jeered at and repressed on her own territory" (67)

- "Ð'...the felquistes appeared to be winning the public relations war: some prominent labour leaders were speaking up on their behalf, and demonstrations in support of their demands Ð'- including an independent QuebecÐ'--were drawling large crowds" 68

- A pro-FLQ rally in Montreal's east endÐ'...attracted 3,000 people, unsettling Trudueau and the authorities in Ottawa, Montreal and Quebec City.

- "Ð'...to protect tour democratic system" Ð'-trudeau states for war measures act 69

- "Ð'...police and soldiers had arrested and detained hundreds of suspects. Some were FLQ sympathizers, but many had no linksÐ'....includ[ing] singer Pauline Julien,Ð'...poet and journalist Gerald Godin.."