Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Justin Trudeau's Red Tide and Pierre Trudeau's October Crisis

Things came to a head last night as votes were tallied beginning here in Atlantic Canada, where it became evident that a Red Tide was sweeping the country and a majority government for Justin Trudeau's Liberal Party glowed red over the horizon .  Later that evening Canada introduced the Liberals as the elected Majority Government.  As CBC Reporter Evan Dyer put it: a "Trunami"!!

This blog investigates what I refer to as "pattern-clusters", and yesterdays Election Date of October 19 is part of a new one, along with Justin Trudeau's father, the iconic political figure and once Prime Minister of Canada, Pierre Trudeau. Mentioned on Pierre Trudeau's Wikipedia page, is a specific group of notable individuals who have two things in common: 1) they crop up as a result of investigating the October Crisis, a section found on Pierre Trudeau's wiki page; 2) and the following highlighted dates from their respective wiki pages:


So what you see in the works, is a "October 16, 17, 18, 19, 20/Date Sequence" pattern-cluster.

The excerpt below is the entire section, copied and pasted from Pierre Trudeau's wiki page:

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October Crisis

  • Trudeau's first serious test came during the October Crisis of 1970, when a Marxist group, the Front de libération du Québec(FLQ) kidnapped British Trade Consul James Cross at his residence on October 6. Five days later Quebec Labour MinisterPierre Laporte was also kidnapped. Trudeau, with the acquiescence of Premier of Quebec Robert Bourassa, responded by invoking the War Measures Act which gave the government sweeping powers of arrest and detention without trial. Trudeau presented a determined public stance during the crisis, answering the question of how far he would go to stop the violence by saying "Just watch me". Laporte was found dead on October 17 in the trunk of a car. The cause of his death is still debated[40]. Five of the FLQ terrorists were flown to Cuba in 1970 as part of a deal in exchange for James Cross' life, although they eventually returned to Canada years later, where they served time in prison.[41]
  • Although this response is still controversial and was opposed at the time as excessive by parliamentarians like Tommy Douglas and David Lewis, it was met with only limited objections from the public.


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