Extraordinary Measures
The October Crisis of 1970 is long over, now 40 years ago this month. What endures to this day is the October squabble.
By HUBERT BAUCH - It isn't about whether the violently radical Front de Liberation du Quebec was in any way justified in its attempt to foment a popular uprising against the legitimately established Quebec government of the day by kidnapping British diplomat James Cross and the provincial labour minister, Pierre Laporte, who was killed by his abductors at the low point of the crisis. An iron cons...