FLQ


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FLQ

(in Canada) abbreviation for
(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) Front de Libération du Québec: a Quebec separatist organization using terrorist tactics, esp in the 1960s and 1970s
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Inderjit Singh Reyat, the bomb maker convicted in the 1985 Air India bombing, and the members of the Front de liberation du Quebec (FLQ) convicted after the 1970 October Crisis were missing from the coverage.
Period 1 (arrests between 1963 and 1982) is comprised exclusively of members of the Quebec Liberation Front (FLQ) while Period 2 (arrests between 1983 and 2001) includes offenders motivated by Sikh extremism and eco-terrorism.
Over the years, he weathered the FLQ crisis, votes on capital punishment and abortion, and saw the Canadian Constitution repatriated.
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(29) Domestically, Trudeau was concerned with Quebec's bid for independence, and with the growing prominence of the Front de liberation du Quebec (FLQ), which he saw as a terrorist group in part because of its involvement in the kidnapping of the British trade commissioner and the Quebec minister of labour in October 1970.
COHEN-ALMAGOR, Raphael (2000): "The terrorists'best ally: The Quebec media coverage of the FLQ crisis in October 1970".