Good afternoon, the topic I have chosen today is the October Crisis of 1970. The October Crisis was a series of dramatic events triggered by two terrorist kidnappings in the province of Quebec, in October 1970, which resulted in a brief invocation of the War Measures Act by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.
The October Crisis actually started in 1963 with the formation of a Quebec nationalist group called the Front de libération du Québec or the FLQ as many had known them. The FLQ had carried out many violent crimes and bombings between 1963 and 1969 including that of the Montreal Stock Exchange on February 13, 1969 which injured many people and caused extensive damage. By 1970, 23 members of the FLQ had been arrested, 4 of them being charged with murder but during October of 1970 is when the crisis actually began.
On the fifth of October British Trade Commissioner James Cross was kidnapped by members of the "Liberation Cell" of the FLQ. This was followed by a communiqué to......
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