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 since March 2020 has been fighting the Canadian Forces with Quebec's total political and economic independence from Canada as its end: this conflict is known as the Quebec War. The FLQ as a political organisation directs its military wing, the Quebec Liberation Army (Armée de libération du Québec); however, in common parlance, the term FLQ is used to refer to the party and its military forces as a whole. The FLQ claims to be the legitimate government of the self-proclaimed Republic of Quebec, 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. Since the end of August 2020, much of the FLQ's regular military forces have been captured or destroyed, with the front increasingly adopting guerrilla warfare tactics through September, ultimately morphing into an insurgent rebellion by the end of the 2020. As the FLQ continues to control Quebec City and the nearby CFB Valcartier, however, it continues to be regarded by the Canadian government as a serious military threat and illegal secession.