It couldnt happen here? Lets take a trip. The October Crisis was a series of events triggered by two kidnappings of government officials by members of the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) during October 1970, mainly in the Montreal area. The circumstances ultimately culminated in the only peacetime use of the War Measures Act in Canadas history, invoked by Governor General of Canada Roland Michener at the direction of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, having been requested by the Premier of Quebec, Robert Bourassa, and the Mayor of Montreal, Jean Drapeau. October 17:The Chenier cell of the FLQ announces that hostage Pierre Laporte, Quebecs Minister Of Labour, has been executed. He was strangled, his body stuffed in the trunk of a car and abandoned in the bush near Saint-Hubert Airport, a few miles from Montreal. Meet Maurice Mom Boucher. Convicted murderer, reputed drug trafficker, and outlaw biker—the former President of the Hells Angels Montreal chapter. In 2002, Boucher was convicted of ordering the murders of two Quebec prison guards as an effort to destabilize the Quebec Justice system. The Crown says that in 1997 Mr. Boucher concocted a Machiavellian and repugnant plan to ensure the loyalty of his men by requiring them to kill prison guards, prosecutors, judges and other law-enforcement officials. Some may remember the widespread public revulsion after an 11-year-old boy was killed by a biker-related car bomb in 1995. Lets go back to 1966. Paul Joseph Chartier accidentally blew himself up in Centre Block with 10 sticks of dynamite. He had gone into a washroom near the House of Commons public galleries and lit the fuse, but misjudged the timing of the detonation. The bomb went off just as he left the washroom. The unemployed Toronto security guard left a note revealing he had planned to toss the explosives onto the floor of the Commons and “exterminate as many members as possible.” No one else was hurt. The Sons of Freedom emerged from the otherwise pacifist Doukhobor sect in British Columbia in the early 60s. Over about four years, the group blew up railway tracks, hydro towers and other industrial and government targets in the province. It was...1985: An Armenian-Canadian terror cell attacked the Turkish Embassy in Ottawa, killing a security guard. 2006. It wasnt that long ago. The so-called Toronto 18 terror group plotted to blow up the Toronto Stock Exchange, the Toronto office of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, a military base near Toronto, and storm the Parliament buildings and behead the prime minister. Eleven jihadists were convicted. It couldnt happen here?
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