War Measures Act
At the time, opinion polls in Quebec and the rest of Canada showed overwhelming support for the "War Measures Act"; in a December 1970 Gallup Poll, it was noted that 89% of English-speaking Canadians and 86% of French-speaking Canadians supported the introduction of the "War Measures Act". They respectively showed 6% and 9% disapproval while the remaining 5% of each population was undecided. Since then, the government's use of the "War Measures Act" in peacetime has been a subject of debate in Canada as it gave police sweeping powers of arrest and detention.