Canada’s Weirdest Kidnapping

Get 25% (or more) off some cool metal posters from Displate: https://displate.com/@spectacles In 1970, French-Quebec terrorists hatched a terrible plan. — Watch ad-free and uncensored: https://go.nebula.tv/spectacles Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/spectaclesmedia Hang out on our Discord: https://discord.gg/VWcpybH683 Check out our script: https://www.spectacles.news/canadas-insane-hostage-crisis/ Special thanks to: @NotJustBikes as Pierre Trudeau @TraceDominguez as Pierre Laporte @lily_lxndr as Pothier Ferland And Discord member Mukund for the excellent topic suggestion For citations, turn on CC. — About us: Spectacles is a love letter to democracy, its values, its caretakers, and its ideas. Around the world, individual rights and representative government are facing unprecedented attacks from the forces of reaction and revisionism. But despite liberal democracy’s real shortcomings and today’s all-too-fashionable cynicism, we remain committed to its preservation and improvement. Join us as we explore just what liberal democracy is, how it comes about, and how it can best be maintained in a changing world. — SOURCES A = D’Arcy Jenish, The Making of the October Crisis: Canada’s Long Nightmare of Terrorism at the Hands of the FLQ, (DoubleDay Canada, 2018). B = William Tetley, The October Crisis, 1970: An Insider’s View, (McGill-Queens University Press, 2007). C = Mitchell Sharp, Which Reminds Me…: A Memoir (University of Toronto Press, 1994). D = Bill C-2, An Act to confer certain powers upon the Governor in Council and to amend the Immigration Act, SC, 1914, c 2. https://primarydocuments.ca/war-measures-act-sc-1914/ E = Liberation Cell of the Front de Liberation du Quebec, “Reaction of the FLQ to the Invocation of the War Measures Act,” 17 October 1970. F = Marion Scott, “October Crisis: Who Was Pierre Laporte, Really?” in the Montreal Gazette, 13 October 2020. — 00:00 INTRO 04:18 THE FLQ 11:00 DEEPENING CRISIS 18:56 WAR MEASURES 23:37 5630 ARMSTRONG 28:06 CLOSING IN 33:13 CONCLUSION — Select imagery/video supplied by Getty Images Low-poly guns by TastyTony are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (https://sketchfab.com/TastyTony) Includes music by Tom Fox: tomfox.site