Quebec Liberation Front

The Quebec Liberation Front (French: Front de libération du Québec), informally known in English by its French acronym FLQ and by Québec nationalists as The Front (le Front), is a major political party in the Canadian province of Quebec, which from 1989 to 1996 fought a civil war against the Canadian Forces, with Quebec's total political and economic independence from Canada as its end. The FLQ as a political organisation directed its military wing, the Quebec Liberation Army (Armée de libération du Québec); however, in common parlance, the term FLQ was used during the war to refer to the party and its military forces as a whole. The FLQ claims to be the legitimate government of the self-proclaimed Quebec Republic, de jure occupying the entirety of the Canadian province's territory, with the front controlling de facto about 45% of Quebec's territory (mostly rural) and 20% of its population at the height of the war. By August 1996, most of the FLQ's regular military forces had been captured or destroyed, with the front increasingly adopting guerrilla warfare tactics through September, ultimately morphing into an insurgent rebellion which finally surrendered to the Canadian government on 24 December 1996 by signing the Treaty of Montreal. The FLQ continues today as a major political party in Quebec, continually demanding political sovereignty for Quebec albeit non-violently, as per the terms of the Treaty of Montreal.