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The October Crisis: Civil Liberties Suspended
In October 1970, tanks roamed city streets and soldiers in full battle gear raided homes in their hunt for "terrorists." They were looking for the Front de libération du Québec; French Canadian nationalists who abducted a British diplomat and a Quebec minister. Some felt like they were living in a police state. How far would Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau go? "Just watch me," he said. Three days later he invoked the War Measures Act and a nation waited with civil liberties suspended.		Educational activities about The October Crisis: Civil Liberties Suspended

	British diplomat kidnapped		FLQ backgrounder		Labour minister kidnapped
	Armed kidnappers forced British Trade Commissioner James Cross into a taxi as he left his Montreal home for work this morning. (Radio; runs 1:34)		The Quiet Revolution turned bloody in 1963. (TV; runs 3:01)		Yesterday, kidnappers with machine guns pulled up to Quebec Labour Minister Pierre Laporte's home and shoved him into the backseat of their car. (Radio; runs 1:42)

	Francophone caller supports FLQ manifesto		Anglophone rebuttal		Just watch me
	A francophone caller to CBC Radio's Double Take is frustrated with English Canada. (Radio; runs 4:52)		An English Canadian caller to CBC Radio's Double Take thinks francophones are a fairly privileged bunch. (Radio; runs 4:51)		Canada looks more like a police state than a democracy eight days after the kidnapping of British Trade Commissioner James Cross. (TV; runs 6:08)

	FLQ sympathizers threaten B.C. mayor		Labour minister found dead		Captors free British diplomat
	The FLQ's message has made its way across the country. (TV; runs 1:38)		Quebec Labour Minister Pierre Laporte has been found strangled. His body was discovered in the trunk of a car tonight. (TV; runs 1:21)		After eight weeks of confinement, James Cross looks back at his ordeal. (TV; runs 7:32)

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