00:00Montreal, October, 1970.
00:14French is the language of over 80% of Quebec's population,
00:18and the separatists want Quebec to become an independent French-speaking nation.
00:25They feel that even written in French,
00:28English controls the money, the power, and the force.
00:31The Mounties are the federal government's police.
00:34They, too, are seen as evidence that Quebec is controlled from outside.
00:38In June, the Ministry of Defence was bombed,
00:42and other acts of retaliation were expected from the violent extremists, the FLQ.
00:47But nothing major happened until Monday, October the 5th.
00:50The senior British trade commissioner in Montreal, James Richard Cross,
00:54is reported to have been kidnapped a short while ago from his Red Path Crescent home
00:58by as many as four armed men believed to be FLQ terrorists.
01:02The government and the liberation cell of the FLQ bargain on prime time
01:06in a deadly media debate for the life of James Richard Cross.
01:11The government agrees to make public the FLQ manifesto.
01:14To the surprise of the authorities,
01:16it was very sympathetically received by the people of Quebec,
01:19who agreed with many of its eloquent aims and angers.
01:23The provincial minister of justice, Jerome Charquette,
01:26makes it clear that broadcasting the FLQ manifesto
01:29was one of the government's very last concessions.
01:31Charquette is heard by a new cell,
01:33and a few minutes later, while playing touch football here outside his house,
01:37Pierre Laporte, the minister of labour and immigration,
01:40is kidnapped by the FLQ.
01:42Overnight, the FLQ is taken very seriously.
01:47Pierre Laporte now pleads for his life in a tragic letter to Robert Bourassa.
01:52But the government has rejected emotional decisions.
01:56Prominent figures are suddenly guarded by soldiers,
02:00cut off from the public.
02:02Hundreds of astonished and outraged people
02:04find themselves abruptly taken from their homes in the dead of night and imprisoned.
02:08These people are to discover
02:10that under the War Measures Act,
02:12they can be kept in prison for up to 90 days without a trial,
02:16and that being a member of the FLQ
02:17has suddenly become a crime
02:20punishable by up to five years in prison.
02:22Have a good day.
02:27Bye!
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02:41I've managed to discover the swipe from luôn,
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02:44I feel more happy not piercing well.
02:45I'm always happy for that to you,
02:46and I refuse to be to have an emergency room,
02:46but for a better thought that to be able
02:47to call yourself.
02:47Because you make your friends,
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