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War Measures Act

Canada [1970]

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effect on Quebec separatist movement

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    In Canada: Quebec separatism

    …intervention, prompting enactment of the War Measures Act, which suspended the usual civil liberties. Subsequently some 500 people were arrested, and troops were moved into Quebec. The Canadian public generally approved of the act, but few convictions followed, except of those accused of the murder of Laporte.

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