Word: trudeau
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...destroy the basis of our democratic governmental system on which the enjoyment of our human rights and fundamental freedoms is founded"; the law's invocation would merely "insure the continued protection of those rights and freedoms in Canada." But buried beneath the platitudes was the distinct likelihood that Trudeau would use the crisis legislation to throw in jail those who posed the greatest legitimate threat to the government of his ruling Liberal party...
...WHAT TRUDEAU challenged, in effect, was a separatist movement in Quebec that had begun in the early '60's and was rapidly gaining strength and respectability in electoral circles as well as in terrorist cliques. One of the early groups, the Parti Quebecois, had attracted a significant province-wide following and won nearly 25 per cent of the popular vote in Quebec's elections last April. Another party, the two-year-old Front d'Action Politique, had been threatening to topple the administration of Montreal Mayor Jean Drapeau in the municipal elections last Sunday...
...government was wild with rage. The disappearance of Cross, though painful, had not hit home nearly so hard as the abduction of Laporte, a powerful political figure and a personal acquaintance of both Bourassa and Trudeau. Justice Minister Jerome Choquette immediately offered to negotiate a safe-conduct passage abroad for the kidnappers in exchange for the return of the two hostages. Lemieux responded by lauding the FLQ as "the most progressive, devoted, and generous element of Quebec youth, perhaps even Quebec society." And many Montreal youths joined in the response. The 7000-student University of Quebec voted to close indefinitely...
...popularity continued to grow, Lemieux rejected the government's final offer: the release of five prisoners for the return of the two men. Trudeau then met with his Cabinet and announced the enactment of martial law. Laporte's death followed 36 hours later...
...spokesmen they could lay their hands on (Lemieux and Vallieres were among the first to be arrested), the police and the military were singularly unsuccessful in cracking the FLQ's tight security and uncovering is members. If there were any truth or logic to what the Trudeau government was doing, it would have outlawed the FLQ only if it knew precisely the people in the FLQ whom it was looking for and then sought them out with a minimum of dispatch. But the available evidence now indicates that the ban on the FLQ was designed not so much to jail...