On this day in Montreal — October 16, 1970: Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau invokes the War Measures Act after the FLQ, a radical Quebec separatist group, kidnapped British Trade Commissioner James Richard Cross and Quebec Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte. That morning, police arrest 405 people in Montreal. The following day, Laporte's body is found in the trunk of a car. The October crisis, as it became known, is the only time the War Measures Act was ever invoked during peacetime. | CBC Montrea
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On this day in Montreal — October 16, 1970: Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau invokes the War Measures Act after the FLQ, a radical Quebec separatist group, kidnapped British Trade
CBC Montreal. . On this day in Montreal — October 16, 1970: Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau invokes the War Measures Act after the FLQ, a radical Quebec separatist group, kidnapped British Trade Commissioner James Richard Cross and Quebec Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte. That morning, police arrest 405 people in Montreal. The following day ...
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