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The FLQ: Seven Years of Terror and the October Crisis
Episode 189
Episode 189: Starting in 1963 and stretching over the next seven years, a militant French separatist group called the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) terrorized La Belle Province. Their aim was to overthrow the Quebec government and leave Canada creating an independent Marxist- Leninist Quebec state. By 1970 the group had committed more than 200 violent criminal and terroristic acts including, bombings and high profile kidnappings. The group’s activities ultimately claimed the lives of eight people, including a Quebec provincial cabinet minister, and injured many more, before then Prime Minister, Pierre Elliot Trudeau, finding himself out of options, enacted the 1914 War Measures act to stem the violence of the October Crisis of 1970.
Sources:
Timeline of the Front de libération du Québec - Wikipedia
CBC Archives — What is the FLQ?
Web Archive | McGill.ca — October Crisis 1970
October Crisis - Canada’s Human Rights History
FLQ (FRONT DE LIBERATION DU QUEBEC) - SEVEN YEARS OF TERRORISM | Office of Justice Programs
Read Hostages Online by Gordon Kerr | Books
Read Terror Threat Online by Dwight Hamilton and Kostas Rimsa | Books
Read The Night Canada Stood Still Online by Robert Wright | Books
Read Trudeaumania Online by Robert Wright | Books
Read October Crisis: 50 Years After A Bloody Spasm That Nearly Tore Canada Apart
DEMOCRACY VERSUS TERRORISM: FLQ TERRORISM IN QUEBEC, A CASE STUDY on JSTOR
The Terrorist Activities of the Front de Liberation du Quebec (FLQ) - The Beginning of a New Era
Pierre Vallières (1937-1998) - The Beginning of a New Era
Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) | The Canadian Encyclopedia
THE FLQ: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION by Lorne Weston
The FLQ Crisis – VALOUR CANADA
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