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When the act was first put into effect, government forces moved swiftly. All over Quebec, police cars roared through the predawn darkness in search of F.L.Q. members and sympathizers. Nearly 300 people were seized. Among them was a fiery young F.L.Q. sympathizer, Lawyer Robert Lemieux, 29, a sort of Canadian Kunstler with a penchant for publicity and overblown rhetoric. Police also discovered several 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...
...solid gray federal complex. As a lifelong defender of civil liberties, one who helped to legalize homosexuality and broaden the abortion law, Trudeau could not help being disturbed by the draconian powers of the War Measures Act. But there were other considerations. He is a French Canadian from Quebec, but he has always been a staunch federalist, with little sympathy for those who place province over union-and less for those separates who want to quit the union altogether. Moreover, the government was said to have information that the terrorists' next step would be selective assassination of political leaders...
...Most Canadians seemed to endorse Trudeau's action, but there was evidence that some had forgotten who made the opening play. T.C. Douglas of the socialist New Democrats accused Trudeau of using the War Measures Act like "a sledgehammer to crack a peanut." At colleges and universities in Quebec, some students boycotted classes to protest the War Measures...
...separatist cause espoused by the Quebec Liberation Front is nothing new either to the province or Canada...
...idea of an independent, French-dominated Quebec goes back to 1759, when the British defeated the French on the Plains of Abraham and made Canada a part of the empire. Over the next 200 years, the separatist notion reappeared periodically but never really became a movement...