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...even more striking is the fact that most capital investment in Quebec is owned, not by English Canadians, but by Americans. (Just before the invocation of the War Measures Act, Quebec Premier Robert Bourassa had returned from a whirlwind tour of the Wall St. investment community.) It was clear, the, that a nationalist struggle such as the FLQ's against the encroachment of Americans and English Canadians in Quebec would also be an economic movement to be waged along class lines. And the kidnapping of British Trade Commissioner Cross-who was abducted only after an attempt on the American commissioner...
...arms caches, including guns, pistols, bayonets and knives. They found no trace of Cross and Laporte, but messages received from both hostages earlier in the week had indicated that they were then alive and safe. "Decide about my life or death," Laporte wrote to Quebec's Premier Robert Bourassa. "I count on you and thank...
Laporte's murder came less than two days after Trudeau-acting at the request of Quebec premier Robert Bourassa and with the approval of his own cabinet-invoked Canada's War Measures Act, outlawing the FLQ and stripping the country of all civil liberties...
...hustings, he derided the old government's habit of wasting money on ministerial trips to Paris that were intended to enhance Quebec's French affiliations. Instead, Bourassa, who is linked through marriage to the powerful Simard shipbuilding family, promised to cut provincial spending and provide 100,000 new jobs during his first year in office. His prescription calls for pumping what provincial money he has into programs that will create jobs and for getting a bigger hunk of federal funds for public works projects...
...Quebec, where unemployment last month was 2.5% higher than the Canadian average of 6.7%, Bourassa's pledge evoked great response: the town of Trois Rivières, a National Union stronghold where 15% of the work force is unemployed, elected its first Liberal in history. If Bourassa fails to deliver on his promises, however, the separatists would undoubtedly revive their claims that Quebeckers can only hope to achieve a better life once they are freed from the domination of Canada's English-speaking majority...