With its armed kidnappings and political murder, an escalation from a years-long campaign of bombings against government and military targets, the October Crisis belied Canada’s sense of its own reputation for peace, order and good government. Memories were still fresh of Expo ’67, that mid-century festival of optimism at Canada’s official centennial, which took place a short walk from the St. Lambert home of Pierre Laporte, Quebec’s Deputy Premier.
No province plays such a role in constitutional law, as the exception, the outlier, the dissident, the holdout, the special case. As the home of one of Canada’s founding peoples, Quebec seems to be, in the words of University of Toronto political scientist Peter Russell, commenting in a 2011 essay on the reasoning of Supreme Court judges, “not a province like the rest, and should not have its powers or place in Confederation altered without the consent of its government. In the face of Canadian history going back to Confederation, that is not an easy principle to deny.
Quebec is not the only province that squirms in Canada. There is an incipient separatist movement in Alberta, based on similar grievances about exploitation.Article content continued On October 6, police were guarding public buildings and foreign missions. On the night of October 8, the manifesto of the Front de Liberation du Quebec was read out on CBC, and published in newspapers: “The Front de Liberation du Quebec is not a messiah, nor a modern-day Robin Hood. It is a group of Quebec workers who have decided to use all means to make sure that the people of Quebec take control of their destiny.
On Sunday the 11th, just after 5 p.m., Deputy Premier and Labour Minister Pierre Laporte was at his home on the south shore while his son and nephew played football outside. He had joined them, dressed up to go out for dinner as usual with his family, when he was grabbed by two men with guns in nylon masks, wearing gloves and business suits, who took him away in a Chevrolet, according to next day press reports.
I was in grade 4. I clipped newspaper articles & did my project in a scrapbook. I was scared. FLQ were killing people. 2 politicians died. I dod not understand why but it impacted my sense of security. I attended a french school.
Special all right! Since 1961 net fiscal transfer out of AB $611B Since 2010 Ottawa has taken over $20B/yr from AB QC gets 2/3 of EQ payments Up to 2018 NOT including $13B this yr to QC QC..$221,000M .. 51.40% AB..............$92M .....0.02%
Um...who?
Supplementary: Despite the U.S. embargo, both Canada (under Diefenbaker) and Mexico traded with Cuba; the U.S. carried out covert operations in Canada, and Kennedy supported a regime change by way of supporting the election of a Liberal government in Canada.
Canadians of that generation will never forget nor forgive . partiquebecois BlocQuebecois Ces le ROC qui souviens maintenant .
Always about Quebec
jeannetix Have to read 3/4 through to find reference to the FLQ, with little condemnation of its members, bombers and murderers all. “By 1982, all the convicted participants had been paroled, and all of those sent to Cuba had returned to Canada, some completing short sentences in Canada.”
MSM media took a bribe to cover up the Communist coup of Canada LockUPMSM
Canada is more haunted by the reaction of pet than the flq
Left wingers are violent people
Why do the worst things happen in Quebec?
Never heard of him. Not so haunting.
Who?
It was a terrible thing but as far as I know, no one is haunted by it.
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