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...still bitter over De Gaulle's support of the breakaway state of Biafra; and Canadian Prime Minster Pierre Elliott Trudeau. It was impossible to know whether Trudeau, a staunch Canadian federalist, stayed away because he was still furious over De Gaulle's famous cry "Vive la Québec libre!" during a 1967 visit there, or simply too burdened by the emergency caused by separatist terrorism. The former seems probable...
Early in the 1960s, Quebec's Premier Jean Lesage vowed to make Quebeckers the maîtres chez nous (masters in our own house) within the Federation. By 1968, René Lévesque, once a member of Lesage's Cabinet, helped found the Parti Québecois, which demanded political separation from Canada. Last spring, Lévesque's party won 24% of Quebec's vote in provincial elections...
...vesque and his colleagues are moderates committed to electoral democracy. At the same time that his ideas were gaining prominence a different breed of separatist was developing: disaffected radicals committed to violent action. In 1962, these activists created the Front de Libération du Québec. They systematically began planting bombs in mailboxes, robbing banks, setting fire to government buildings. Kidnaping is their latest weapon. "There is no difference between the F.L.Q. and the liberation movement of Palestine, of Viet Nam, of Black Power," says F.L.Q. Leader Charles Gagnon...
...kidnapers espouse a cause that has inspired Quebeckers ever since General Wolfe's redcoats defeated Montcalm's French army on the Plains of Abraham in 1759 and imposed British rule. In last April's provincial elections, René Levesque's Parti Québecois, which demands an independent Quebec free of political ties to Canada, won 24% of the vote. But while most separatists seek their goals by peaceable means, a number seek to turn their fight for French separatism into full-scale urban guerrilla war. The Liberation Front, which probably numbers no more than...
...choses etant ce qu'elles sont, les hommes font ce qu'ils font. " -Jean Lacouture...