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...verbal and physical, that Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau invoked the War Measures Act, Canada's equivalent of martial law. Even today the nation's most eccentric voice of disaffection, the nonsensical Rhinoceros Party, is based and enjoys its greatest following in Montreal. Though the independence-minded Parti Québécois has controlled the provincial legislature for eight years, Quebec has long voted overwhelmingly Liberal in national elections...
Capitalizing on this impulse, Provincial Premier René Lévesque, 62, and his Parti Québécois have always taken separatism as their driving ambition and rallying cry. The party stormed into power in 1976, as teachers, intellectuals and unionists−drawn from among the 5 million French speakers, who predominate among the province's 6 million residents−rallied behind the secessionist cause. Before long the new provincial government had enshrined French as Quebec's only official language and forbidden the use of English-language signs even in predominantly English-speaking neighborhoods. Thus...
...Canadian Armed Forces installation near Ottawa. Canadian authorities have not speculated on Lortie's motives. But the tape left by the man at CJRP threatened to "destroy" the provincial government, which has espoused separation from the rest of Canada. The recording railed against the ruling Parti Québécois 's pro-French language policies, declaring: "I [have] waited for just the right moment. It's at hand now. The government will be destroyed...
...force if reason failed. In 1970 Trudeau became the first Prime Minister in history to invoke Canada's War Measures Act in peacetime, sending the army into the streets of Montreal and Quebec City to deal with terrorist kidnapings by the separatist Front de Libération du Québec By 1975 Trudeau's reputation as a powerful leader had dimmed. In the 1979 election his Liberals lost to the Conservatives; six months later he announced that he was stepping down as Liberal leader, declaring that he "was not the man to rebuild the Liberal Party...
...impatiently at his mother's blouse. "Un momenta," she replies, searching the bustling hallway for the bright red T shirt of her other son. "¿Donde esta Miguel?" A moment later, Miguel bursts through the throng of chattering children and appears at his mother's side. "¿Qué vamos supper, Mom ?" he asks. "What's for supper...