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Episode 189: Starting in 1963 and stretching over the next seven years, a militant French separatist group called the Front de lib\xe9ration du Qu\xe9bec (FLQ) terrorized La Belle Province. Their aim was to overthrow the Quebec government and leave Canada creating an independent Marxist- Leninist Quebec state. By 1970 the group had committed more than 200 violent criminal and terroristic acts including, bombings and high profile kidnappings. The group\u2019s activities ultimately claimed the lives of eight people, including a Quebec provincial cabinet minister, and injured many more, before then Prime Minister, Pierre Elliot Trudeau, finding himself out of options, enacted the 1914 War Measures act to stem the violence of the\xa0October Crisis of 1970.Sources:\n\nTimeline of the Front de lib\xe9ration du Qu\xe9bec - Wikipedia\n\nCBC Archives \u2014 What is the FLQ?\n\nWeb Archive | McGill.ca \u2014 October Crisis 1970\n\nOctober Crisis - Canada\u2019s Human Rights History\n\nFLQ (FRONT DE LIBERATION DU QUEBEC) - SEVEN YEARS OF TERRORISM | Office of Justice Programs\n\nThe Making of the October Crisis: Canada\u2019s Long Nightmare of Terrorism at the Hands of the FLQ by D\u2019Arcy Jenish\n\nRead Hostages Online by Gordon Kerr | Books\n\nRead Terror Threat Online by Dwight Hamilton and Kostas Rimsa | Books\n\nRead The Night Canada Stood Still Online by Robert Wright | Books\n\nRead Trudeaumania Online by Robert Wright | Books\n\nRead October Crisis: 50 Years After A Bloody Spasm That Nearly Tore Canada Apart\n\nDEMOCRACY VERSUS TERRORISM: FLQ TERRORISM IN QUEBEC, A CASE STUDY on JSTOR\n\nThe Terrorist Activities of the Front de Liberation du Quebec (FLQ) - The Beginning of a New Era\n\nPierre Valli\xe8res (1937-1998) - The Beginning of a New Era\n\nFront de lib\xe9ration du Qu\xe9bec (FLQ) | The Canadian Encyclopedia\n\nTHE FLQ: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION by Lorne Weston\n\nThe FLQ Crisis \u2013 VALOUR CANADA\n\nSummary \xb7 Task Force on Kidnapping: The Department of External Affairs\u2019 Files on the October Crisis \xb7 Canada Declassified\n\n\xab Front de lib\xe9ration du Qu\xe9bec (FLQ)\xbb : tous nos articles | Le Devoir\n\nPierre Laporte - Wikipedia\n\nJames Cross - Wikipedia\n\nFran\xe7ois Schirm \u2014 Wikip\xe9dia\n\nEdmond Gu\xe9nette \u2014 Wikip\xe9dia\n\nCommission of Inquiry Concerning Certain Activities of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police\n\nRoyal Commission of Inquiry into Certain Activities of the RCMP - Wikipedia\n\nOctober Crisis: Who was Pierre Laporte, really? | Montreal Gazette\n\nLa police connaissait les ravisseurs de Cross et Laporte | Radio-Canada.ca\n\nGlobal News \u2014 Search: FLQ\n\nCanada - The Trudeau years, 1968\u201384 | Britannica\n\nRegina v. Vallieres, 1969 CanLII 1000 (QC CA), \n\nRegina v. Vallieres, 1973 CanLII 1418 (QC CA), \n\nR. v. Cossette-Trudel, 1979 CanLII 2876 (QC CQ), \n\nThe Quiet Revolution\n\nChronology of the October Crisis, 1970, and its Aftermath - Quebec History\n\nMessage of the FLQ to the Nation 1963\n\nYouTube \u2014 Trudeau: Just watch me\n\nJust watch me - Wikipedia\nSupport the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices