War Measures Act
During his career as a lawyer for the FLQ, Lemieux defended more than 30 terrorists and represented the members of the Chenier cell, the group behind the kidnapping of Quebec cabinet minister Pierre Laporte, who was strangled. Lemieux argued in court that Laporte's death was accidental and suggested prime minister Pierre Trudeau was partly responsible. "If Trudeau had not declared the "War Measures Act", Pierre Laporte would never have died," Lemieux said. Arrests under the "War Measures Act", he raged, were "a shameful game, nameless buffoonery and extraordinary farce."