[4] The manifesto criticised big business, the Catholic Church, René Lévesque, Robert Bourassa and declared Pierre Trudeau "a queer".
[1][2] The members of the Chénier Cell believed many other Québécois people would follow them in an uprising to create an independent state.
[1] On October 16, 1970, the Government of Canada proclaimed the existence of a state of "apprehended insurrection" under the War Measures Act.
[1] On October 17, 1970, the day after the Government of Canada invoked the War Measures Act, the Chénier Cell announced that they had executed Laporte.
[1][2] Laporte was found strangled in the back of a stolen motor vehicle abandoned near the Montreal Saint-Hubert Longueuil Airport.