The Republic of Quebec

[Cliffy]

I just found this gem and thought it relates to this subject:

Landry blasts War Measures Act as form of 'terrorism' - Yahoo! Canada News



I was surprised by the fact that someone would be so delusional as to raise a monument to this angling to be sympathetic to people who were responsible for the situation, so I dug a little and found this story from earlier this month:

Societe St. Jean Baptiste to mark October Crisis with monument - CTV News



I think this speaks volumes about the disconnect between Quebec seperatists and the rest of the country. How is a group that bombd, kidnaps and kills people the victim when they evoke a draconian response from the gov't? What were the FLQ and their sympathizers expecting? That the gov't would pack up and leave?

The October Crisis may not be a great event in Canadian history but lets not forget why it happened: it was radical seperatist terrorism that instigated the entire affair. The victims were the one like James Cross, Pierre LaPorte and other recipients of violence from the FLQ thugs.

Were you there at the time?I was. Most of the people arrested, like the G8 summit, were not guilty of anything, just in the wrong place at the wrong time. The official history, as written by anglophones is considerably different than that written by the Quebecois. What actually happened may never be known, because the official story smelled of something else. To me it looked like a chess game being played to scare the French back into line. It kinda backfired when Levesque was elected three years later, though.