FLQ Facts

FLQ facts

- formeed in march of 1963
- Wanted Qubec to be an independant country instead of a province in canada
- Bombed many federal amories
- Robbed many banks for their funding
- Started the october crisis in 19u70
- Kidknapped British trade commisioner and Kidknapped and kiled Pierre LaPorte (Labour minister and Vice - Premier of Quebec
- 200 bombings within their time
- two cells Cheiner cell and Liberation cell
- Cheiner cell led by paul rose liberation cell led by Jacques Lanctôt
- War Measures act employed over 450 people arrested needlessley
- 150 "suspected" FLQ members arrested
- both cheiner and liberation cells had 12 members
- After Pierre LaPorte was killed and James Cross was released from captivity Paul rose and Bernard Lortie Were arrested and sentenced to life in prison for Kidknapping and murder of a government official
- Jauqes rose was accused of an accesory and gave 8 years in prison
- Some Cross kidknappers fled to cuba and 1 stayed in quebec
- the FLQ movement stopped in 1971

CONCEPTS

Quiet Revolution

Socialism

Terroism

Speratism

Nationalism

FULL NAME:

Front de libération du Québec

War Measures act

Civil Rights

National liberation movememnt

Kidknapping Pierre Laporte

Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau



FLQ MEMBERS

Marc Carbonneau

Paul Rose

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