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Someone might have taken as an example the government's calculated destruction of Montreal's major opposition party, Front d'Action Politique (FRAP), which endorses the FLQ's political and economic goals. That party ran candidates for 31 of the 52 seats on the Montreal city council last Sunday, and most of the candidates were given a decent chance of winning their contests. But after the declaration of martial law, two of the candidates were arrested and the party itself was repeatedly assailed...
Regional Minister of Economic Expansion Jean Marchand said that the FRAP was a "front" that provided "moral support" for the FLQ. He also charged that the underground group was planning to disrupt the municipal elections "by explosions of all kinds and by further kidnappings or even shooting people." Mayor Drapeau joined in the condemnation, claiming that FRAP was "bringing together all the terrorist and revolutionary elements in Montreal." He also stated that "blood would flow in the streets if a party based on socialism were to be elected...
Other groups, however, have been more drastically affected by the mass seizure of political activists. One such group is the Front d' Action Politique (FRAP), the major opposition to the administration of Montreal mayor Jean Drapeau in the municipal elections October...
...candidates and several members of FRAP-which supports the FLQ'spolitical manifesto-were jailed by Montreal police almost immediately after the announcement of the war act, FRAP president Paul Cliche charged Friday that the arrests were prefabricated and that they will "seriously affect our campaign...
...offend just about everyone. The Communists attacked his land-reform program because it stole, with little change, the thunder from their land-for-the-masses campaign promises. The landlords were unhappy because the government paid low prices for the expropriated property. A united front of leftist parties called FRAP attacked his plan to "Chileanize" the country's foreign-owned copper industry because it stopped short of nationalization. The rich complained about having to pay income taxes; the middle class griped about Frei's anti-inflationary moves, which held down wage increases. The poor fretted that Promo-don Popular...