October Crisis/War Measures Act
From the early 1960s to the mid 1970s, Quebec was going through a very rough political era. Rising feelings of Quebec inhabitants was leading to disruption in political events, and many places of work for both French, and English Canadians. The feelings of inequality by the Francophones were obvious, through the outbreak of two legal and one underground separatist, political parties, though the act of terrorism and crime is never excused. The government of Quebec knew this, and for that reason issued the War Measures Act. These historical occurrences led to mounting frustration by French Quebeckers, actions by two legal parties and violent outbursts by a third party, and finally the ...
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the province, and saw them as the cause for the loss of so many French job positions. One stereotypical view was when a French worker would get fired, it was an English who laid them off. The inequality the French felt is an example of the emotions that sparked the separatist movement. The largest of the groups was the, “Rassemblement pour l’independence nationale (R.I.N.)”. Marcel Chaput and Pierre Bourgault formed this group in the September of 1960. They rallied significant numbers of mainly middle class Francophone students and professionals. (Ben, 759) In 1962 a split occurred within the R.I.N. over the prominence given to socialism in its independence program. (Ben, 759) Marcel Chaput and his followers organized their own separatist party, “the Parti Republican du Quebec”. (Ben, 759) The group of separatists, “Creditistes” and Gilles Gregoire joined with the Parti Republican du Quebec in 1966 to form, “Rassemblement nationale (R.N.)”. (Ben, 759) The R.I.N. held ...
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“hurting” their livelihood as French Quebeckers. A month after they developed this idea, they initiated a campaign of terrorism. (Ben, 760) This included mail bombs, bombing of political buildings, and attacks on, “English” places of work. (Ben, 760) The result was a shock of the nation, the government realized they had to do something before this went any further. Following the arrest of eighteen F.L.Q. sympathizers in June of 1963, for various acts of violence, the radical faction went underground. (Ben 760) As the violence of the F.L.Q. rose, so did the watch of the government. The only option the F.L.Q. had, was to act in secret. On the morning of October 5 1970, two ...
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