Essay Archive - October Crisis/War Measures Act
October Crisis/War Measures Act
From the early 1960s to the mid 1970s, Quebec was going through a very rough political era. Rising feelings of Quebec inhabitants was leading to disruption in political events, and many places of work for both French, and English Canadians. The feelings of inequality by the Francophones were obvious, through the outbreak of two legal and one underground separatist, political parties, though the act of terrorism and crime is never excused. The government of Quebec knew this, and for that reason issued the War Measures Act. These hi....
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