As countries continue to face the wave of terrorism, many have adopted political policies that tend toward the extreme side. The policies are that of state repression or negative sanctions in the effort to stop terrorist attacks. Many of the states who have these policies are hoping to never have to use them and others have already put them into action. One country that has had to use state repression in the past as an effort to stop terrorist attacks is Canada. In 1970, Canada enacted the War Measures Act to stop the Front de Liberation du Quebec. Although, there is a belief by many politicians that state repression will stop terrorist attacks, this is not the case. The reasons that are given for why they believe state repression will end
