For many years Quebec had fallen behind the rest of the country in their social conditions while they were led by Maurice Duplessis and the Union Nationale as they rejected any progressive ideas and worked to keep Quebec 's focus on the French language, the Catholic Church, and Quebec 's culture. After the death of Duplessis and the election of their new liberal leader Jean Lesage, Quebec started the Quiet Revolution where they began to turn their back on the Catholic Church, change their traditions based on high birth rates and early marriages, question many social standards, and turn their new main focus towards education. This revolution fueled the Nationalist fire that many Quebecois had found when they feared for their culture and language throughout Canada 's history such as the conscription crisis in both World War One and Two, and when Ontario 's …show more content…
Terrorism is the climate of fear that a political group attempts to instill in a society in order to create insecurity among the general population and often do this using acts of violence. The FLQ robbed banks, bombed landmarks and Anglophone symbols such as mailboxes, the home of Montreal 's mayor Jean Drapeau, and the Montreal Stock Exchange, and kidnapped the British Trade commissioner James Cross but it wasn 't until the kidnapping of Quebec 's Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte that Trudeau would finally have to turn to drastic measure, which was calling in the War Measures Act. In 1914, Canada adopted the War Measures Act, which assigns emergency powers to the federal government when it perceives a real or suspected threat of war, invasion, or insurrection, which in an act or instance of rising in revolt, rebellion, or resistance against civil authority or an established government, and this act also suspends people 's civil rights. These civil rights include, amongst other things the right to be protected against unwarranted or arbitrary arrests, detentions, searches and seizures, and the right to