text: Simply a series of mailbox bombings and then two political kidnappings is what led to the only declaration of martial law in Canadian history. Trudeau - later a hero for human rights - put thousands of troops into the streets of Montreal and Ottawa and arrested hundreds of men and women because of their political beliefs. Keeping some in jail for weeks. Also, the FLQ group murdered kidnap-pee and provincial politician Pierre Laporte "after" Trudeau had brought the military into the streets. Maybe he would have survived? We'll never know.