Essay On The 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 retroactively 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
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television broadcast, " referred to Trudeau the queer' (tapette) and talked of how "the French-speaking majority of Quebec is jeered at and repressed on her own territory" (67)
- " 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 including an independent Quebecwere drawling large crowds" 68
- A pro-FLQ rally in Montreal's east end attracted 3,000 people, unsettling Trudueau and the authorities in Ottawa, Montreal and Quebec City.
- " to protect tour democratic system" trudeau states for war measures act 69
- " police and soldiers had arrested and detained hundreds of suspects. Some were FLQ sympathizers, but many had no links .includ[ing] singer Pauline Julien, poet and journalist Gerald Godin.." 69
- Opposition leader Robert Stanfelid said: " what I consider to be the small importance Canadians seemed to attach to civil liberties and the willingness with which they were prepared to see the government kick Quebcers around"70
- As La Presse " 87 per cent of Candians support the application' of the [War Measures] act and added that the support given to Trudeau and Bourassa came almost equally from francophones and Anglophones.."71
- "Three decades later, hindsight offers much more divided opinions no organized network looking to overthrow the established order [and] [a]nother is the belief that Ottawa used the kidnappings as a pretext to stamp out separatism"
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- FLQ polemicist, Pierre Vallieres, told Macleans that "The October crisi makre the end of the violence from the Quebec side..." 71
- "Since then, the debate over the province's constitutional future has continued through two referendums on sovereignty and seven provincial elections all of them held peaceful. If Canadians remain so blessed, no other prime minister will ever face a similar change"
No mandate but terror
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 retroactively 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 …show more content…
television broadcast, " referred to Trudeau the queer' (tapette) and talked of how "the French-speaking majority of Quebec is jeered at and repressed on her own territory" (67)
- " 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 including an independent Quebecwere drawling large crowds" 68
- A pro-FLQ rally in Montreal's east end attracted 3,000 people, unsettling Trudueau and the authorities in Ottawa, Montreal and Quebec City.
- " to protect tour democratic system" trudeau states for war measures act 69
- " police and soldiers had arrested and detained hundreds of suspects. Some were FLQ sympathizers, but many had no links .includ[ing] singer Pauline Julien, poet and journalist Gerald Godin.." 69
- Opposition leader Robert Stanfelid said: " what I consider to be the small importance Canadians seemed to attach to civil liberties and the willingness with which they were prepared to see the government kick Quebcers around"70
- As La Presse " 87 per cent of Candians support the application' of the [War Measures] act and added that the support given to Trudeau and Bourassa came almost equally from francophones and Anglophones.."71
- "Three decades later, hindsight offers much more divided opinions no organized network looking to overthrow the established order [and] [a]nother is the belief that Ottawa used the kidnappings as a pretext to stamp out separatism"
71
- FLQ polemicist, Pierre Vallieres, told Macleans that "The October crisi makre the end of the violence from the Quebec side..." 71
- "Since then, the debate over the province's constitutional future has continued through two referendums on sovereignty and seven provincial elections all of them held peaceful. If Canadians remain so blessed, no other prime minister will ever face a similar change"
No mandate but terror