From London to Ottawa, State terrorism in the history of Quebec: Difference between revisions

From where it clearly follows that the illegal actions of the FLQ, in particular the kidnapping of [[Wikipedia:James Richard Cross|James Cross]], commercial attaché in Montreal to the [http://www.britishhighcommission.gov.uk/ High Commissioner of Great Britain] and of [[Wikipedia:Pierre Laporte|Pierre Laporte]], Minister for Labour and Deputy Premier in the Quebec liberal government of [[Wikipedia:Robert Bourassa|Robert Bourassa]], were only the occasion desired and awaited by the Canadian government, then under the rule of Pierre Elliot-Trudeau, to move to action in order to strike, through the alleged necessity to combat an alleged clandestine movement, all of Quebec's independence forces. Those forces had just expressed their power of attraction in a brilliant manner, during the past elections of April 29, in bringing 24% of voters to grant their vote to the [[Wikipedia:Parti Québécois|Parti Québécois]], in spite of a fear campaign carried out by the establishment which did not hesitate to resort to the most dishonest tactics, including the famous "Brinks coup", to make the electorate believe that an election of the PQ would imply a vertiginous fall of its standard of living. [[Wikipedia:René Lévesque|René Lévesque]] rightly qualified this threat of "economic terrorism". Rightly also, in the evening of the election, he claimed with pride in front of thousands of militants who welcomed his remarks with enthusiasm: "This defeat resembles a victory". This comprehension of the event was entirely shared by all the political and economic community of Canada and federalist Quebec. A few months later, it gave the sign of it by promulgating the ''War Measures Act'', passing from economic terrorism to political and military terrorism which is one of the constants of the internal logic of Canadian history since the English Conquest. This terrorism forms part of the many processes of repression of the conquered nation. The State has recourse to it each time that it catches this nation in the act of wanting to have an autonomous existence and before it does become capable to assume its sovereignty, even when the ''rapport de force'' involved does not justify it at all. Terrorism which, already, signed the passage of the British army on the banks of the St. Lawrence, during the War of Conquest. In the beginning was terrorism, could we say.