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The most extreme separatists in Quebec had never believed in democratic methods to solve the problem. The y wanted separation right away and would do anything they could to get that. In the 1950's and 1960's terror tactics such as bombing, kidnapping, and assassination to force governments to give them want they wanted were happening all over the world in pretty much all the countries. Since 1963 Quebec had suffered from scattered acts of separatist violence, mainly bombings which usually did little damage. Now, In October 1970, a small group of terrorist-separatists caused what became one of the most serious political crisis in Canadian history.

On October 5 the British trade commissioner in Montreal, James Cross, was kidnapped from his home by terrorists who called them selves the Front de Liberation du Quebec, or FLQ. While the government of Canada tried to negotiate Cross's release-Saying it would give in to some of the FLQ's Demands; another "cell" of the FLQ's......


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