THE UPEI SUN, Thursday, OctOber 16,‘1980. page 6

by Michael McEvoy for CANADIAN UNIVERSITY PRESS It is my hope that some

day the full details of ’ the intelligence upon which the government acted can be made public, because until that day comes the people of Canada will not be able fully to appreciate the course of action which has been taken by the govern- ment.

For most Canadians, the October Crisis of 1970 is a closed case. Most people

still feel the federal government was correct when it proclaimed the War Measures Act to bring "peace and order" to a

country wrought by terrosists.

But 10 years later many questions linger about the war Measures Act and the Crisis itself. Was it necessary to invoke the WMA to solve the Laporte/ Cross kidnapping or did the government have other rea- sons for its proclamation? Still other mysteries surround the actual murder of Pierre Laporte. Did Paul Rose, serving a life term for Laporte's killing, actually murder Quebec's labour minister? And what was the role of Canada's police forces throughout these events?

These questions have remained largely unex- amined by the English media, although in Quebec they have been probed with startling results. Preliminary investigations by journalists and inquiry connissions re— veal four things. First, the federal governemet, either intentionally or unintentionally, overreacted to events in 1970. Second Paul Rose was probably not present when Pierre Laporte was killed. Third, ROMP and police had, by 1970, penetrated the FIQ thoroughly enough to know what the group was planning. Fourthly, Pierre Laporte

’ had extensive connections with Montreal's mafia ounnunity, a fact which saans to have muddied speculation about Laporte's actual murder.

FILQFOUNDED

The Front de Liberation Quebecois (FLQ) was founded by a small band of people in 1963 who were dedicated to the cause of an independent Quebec. The FTC was one of many inde— perfence groups formed at that time, but it became the most notable because of its bombing missions

ir affluent English suburbs ‘ in.Montreal.

In 1964, the FDQ was given an intellectual shot in the arnxwhen Pierre vallieres and Charles Gagnon assumed leadership. Both were jailed two years later when police connected then with incidents of violence. By 1970, rumours abounded that the F10 was about to

John Turner, Oct. 16/70 attempt sanething more

daring than mail box imanbings. In May of 1970, police officials say they ' foiled an EUQ attempt to abduct an American govern- ment official. By this time the police had iden- tified the handful of people in the FLO. Jacques Lanctot and Paul Rose,

- involved in the Cross and

Laporte kidnappings, had been arrested at the

raucous demonstration during the St. Jean Baptiste Day celebrations in 1968. Others such as Marc Carbonneau,

a Cress abductor, were leaders of the "liberation" taxi drivers nunnament a few years earlier.

When Cross was kidnapped, the police had a good idea who the culprits were. ﬁnd sopdid La Presse, Quebec's largest French language daily newspaper. Ehey speculated in a front page story the day after Cross's abduction that Jacques Ianctort was involved since he_was a cab driver and Cross was kednapped in a Taxi. _

According to Pierre vallieres, in his book, the Assasination of Pierre Iaporte, police also knew the house where Laporte was held was an FIQ_re- sidence. It had been

previously rented by Paul Rose.

But When the fateful Oct. 5 arrived, police, through the media, gave the impre-

, ssion the FIQ was a huge

force, largely unknown and

capable of overthrowing the government. Federal - cabinet minister, Jean ” Marchand, said the FIQ numbered about 3,000 and had infiltrated every key area of the province.

In a recent interview on

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kidnappings. Even the

PLO members themselves acknowledged they and their sympathizers numbered about 100. In a.ccnuunique

.suppressed by the govern—

ment, the kidnappers said ‘. the authorities had senr sationalized the group's power in order to dis— credit them in the eyes

of the public, ‘ particularly Quebec's

young people who were synr pathetic to at least the groups' separatist principles. "This revolution will not be made by a hundred people as

‘ the authorities want every—

one to believe, but by the K Whole ulation", the message stated. So if it is assumed the government knew the F10 did not pose a genuine re- volutionary threat, why proclahm the War Measures Act? War Measures Act.

A similar theory about events of Oct. 1970 are constructed by journalist/ novelist Ian Adans in his bodk, End~Game In Paris . Adams pieces together a

tale of poIiCe infiltration of EEO ranks with Poliqe.._,,a

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-that Pan and the Goat are very good friends. _ ~ \ A I

_-that the Student Union can‘t decide which door 7 I =that the Junior class Main Eyent was a great

-that caps is a ladies game and Thane and Jimmy

-that Aliens are striking the earth again. One of them '-a in a_green suit is chickening out of the Halloween 7'

Dwight is off the wagon and on‘his feet again. the Wimp (alias “twinkle tees") runs around: as little as possible on._ I ~~.\ .” ' -that 213 Blanchard has peeping toms.» « ,Trly ,. I -that 205 won't talk with_216. '.¥/ ‘,”” ', .:-,,~ , I ;

actually establishing phony "parallel" cells of the; group. Adams suggests that police plants manipu- lated naive nenbers to cxxnnit acts of violence. The crisis itself was the“ creation of the "colqlen", who he says heads a spec1al

'counterterrorist unit which

is loosely attached to the ROKP. Adams' theories about police.infi1tration" of the F10 have to scne extent been borne out.'*

At the Keable Coundssion into police wrongdoing in Quebec testimony was heard that Donald Cobb, superv intendant of the RCMP, actually wrote provocative . 'TIQ" canmnﬁques. “men ‘ Vallieres denounced violence as a means of change in

‘Quebec, Cobb issued a

ccnnunique frtnia.fake cell

of the F10, denoun01ng' , vallieres and asking the EEO

to retain its‘violent ways! Also revealed at the crnudssion was that Carole Devault,

who helped write October Crisis camnmiques, plant

'hrnbs, store dynamite and:

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Radio Canada, Marchand admitted these figures were based more on guessing than

on hard evidence. ’ "Each made his own assessment", conceded Marchand.

Under the War Measures Act 465 people were arrested, 403 of vduan were released without charge. Only 18 people were convicted on charges relating to the~\

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February blues can hit in Octobergs M0 is becoming an Islander. "90 away” and

all in one night.

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PD can't even keep his VW standing*StillI;nfﬂ it's Tom B.'s birthday this thursday and he'dL

better stop counting them.? . ethat the Dobermans in the Barn wiJl be used_t0" keep men away from Bernadine. Let them earn their

. pound of Flesh!