October 10, 2006

Quebec’s Pierre Laporte Kidnapped

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The separatist Quebec Liberation Front's (FLQ) kidnapping of Pierre Laporte, Quebec's Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour, began the October Crisis, during which the Canadian government assumed sweeping emergency powers to combat the insurrection. Though the FLQ had carried out approximately 200 violent crimes since 1963, the October Crisis provided the impetus for the government to search out and arrest a number of the group's members. What happened to Laporte?
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