The FLQ Crisis: Political Turmoil - 1970 🍁
In October 1970 Canada faced a severe crisis when the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) kidnapped British Trade Commissioner James Cross & Quebec Labour Minister Pierre Laporte; later murdered. Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau invoked the War Measures Act, suspending civil liberties & deploying the military. The crisis led to debate of security and freedom. #Canada #FLQCrisis #History #OctoberCrisis
The FLQ Crisis: Political Turmoil - 1970 🍁
In October 1970 Canada faced a severe crisis when the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) kidnapped British Trade Commissioner James Cross & Quebec Labour Minister Pierre Laporte; later murdered. Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau invoked the War Measures Act, suspending civil liberties & deploying the military. The crisis led to debate of security and freedom. #Canada #FLQCrisis #History #OctoberCrisis
The FLQ Crisis: Political Turmoil - 1970 🍁
In October 1970 Canada faced a severe crisis when the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) kidnapped British Trade Commissioner James Cross & Quebec Labour Minister Pierre Laporte; later murdered. Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau invoked the War Measures Act, suspending civil liberties & deploying the military. The crisis led to debate of security and freedom. #Canada #FLQCrisis #History #OctoberCrisis
Peter Kuznick delivers a talk at a Simone Weil Center symposium on John F. Kennedy's momentous 1963 American University speech, marking the president's transformation from Cold Warrior to peace seeker. By Peter Kuznick Simone Weil Center On June 10, 1963, John F. Kennedy delivered his hi
The FLQ Crisis: Political Turmoil - 1970 🍁
In October 1970 Canada faced a severe crisis when the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) kidnapped British Trade Commissioner James Cross & Quebec Labour Minister Pierre Laporte; later murdered. Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau invoked the War Measures Act, suspending civil liberties & deploying the military. The crisis led to debate of security and freedom. #Canada #FLQCrisis #History #OctoberCrisis
The FLQ Crisis: Political Turmoil - 1970 🍁
In October 1970 Canada faced a severe crisis when the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) kidnapped British Trade Commissioner James Cross & Quebec Labour Minister Pierre Laporte; later murdered. Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau invoked the War Measures Act, suspending civil liberties & deploying the military. The crisis led to debate of security and freedom. #Canada #FLQCrisis #History #OctoberCrisis
@daverooneyca I was 9 and they found Pierre Laporte (kidnapped, tortured, executed) near my gradeschool. There were mailbox bombs. We Anglo kids were harangued by French kids with PQ parents. (I always walked the long way around, to avoid one meanie who terrorized me). We fled Québec on summer vacation that year, headed to the maritimes, passing a convoy of military vehicles coming the other way: toward our town. In Canada.
Terrorism can happen anywhere.
Sharing bits of Canada 'eh🇨🇦
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Deb has moved! (see profile) 🇨🇦