When the PQ has formed Quebec’s provincial government, it has ridden roughshod over workers’ rights, using emergency laws to break strikes and threatening workers with mass firings, so as to impose capitalist austerity. By the time John Turner had waited out the Trudeau era and was elected Leader of the Liberal Party to become Prime Minister in 1984, the country was fed up with the Liberal government. That a key element in the military’s mission was to prepare for social opposition was highlighted when it emerged the CAF had activated a plan, based on methods it had used during the neocolonial occupation of Afghanistan, to gather intelligence, suppress and manipulate information and promote pro-government propaganda so as to deter civil unrest. Only 63 of the 497 were ever charged with any crime. In the days that followed, government officials spread brazen and lurid lies in an effort to stampede public opinion. For the following 30 years, the Bank of Canada helped to transform Canada’s economy, while elevating the standard of living for Canadians. As the conclusion of Hamer’s 1981 trial—he had pled guilty to charges of kidnapping, extortion and conspiracy—the presiding judge said Hamer warranted clemency because he had become a responsible member of society (he was a Montreal-area teacher), and had suffered “anguish” for years because he feared he was being followed by the police. When the authorities refuse its demands, “disorders” ensue. It is the highest civil office in the United Kingdom. John Turner was a Prime Minister in waiting for too long. Other top officials suggested it had potentially thousands of members and a vast arsenal. Fifty years ago this month, on October 16, 1970, Canada’s government—headed by the Liberal Party’s Pierre Elliott Trudeau, the father of the country’s current prime minister—invoked the draconian War Measures Act. [citation needed], Of the four major party leaders, only Trudeau would remain in place for the following federal election five years later. Even more tellingly, just 18 were convicted. Ano ang pinakamaliit na kontinente sa mundo? “There are a lot of bleeding hearts around who just don’t like to see people with helmets and guns,” declared Trudeau. As in the 1930s, the bourgeoisie is turning to dictatorship and fascist reaction. In the hours that immediately followed, police carried out raids without warrants across Quebec and took hundreds of people into detention. Gagnon, meanwhile, became the principal leader of the Maoist organization En Lutte!/In Struggle!, forsaking the FLQ for another variant of petty-bourgeois nationalist politics, which dissolved itself in the early 1980s.