heritage minute assignment
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- one night on oct,5,1970 two men from the FLQ snuck into James cross's house andkiddnapped him
- source: october crisis:October Crisis (Plain-Language Summary) | The Canadian Encyclopedia under the crisis
- the two kiddnappers got caught and the FLQ said they will free Cross if the FLQ members where freed
- then after on october 10 the FLQ kiddnapped Pierre Laporte he was Quebec minister of immigration and labour. the FLQ said that they will kill him if their demands where not met
- premier robert bourassa refused so primeminister trudeau had the army guard public buildings in ottawa. this scared many people. canadians were not used to seeing soldiers on the streets.
- on october 17 at 10:50 pm Laporte's body was found in the trunk of a car. he was strangled to death. on october 20 the police had conducted 1,628 raids under war measures act.
- on december 3 james cross was released. the government promised his kidnappers that they would not be arrested. they were given safe passage to cuba instead. others involved in the kidnapping and murder of laporte were arrested and sent to prison
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