Jacques Lanctôt
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Jacques Lanctôt is a Canadian
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 writer and publisher, restaurateur, and former militant separatist.
Lanctôt is a former member of the FLQ, a violent separatist group.
He was one of the FLQ members who kidnapped James Cross
James Cross
James Richard Cross, CMG was a British diplomat in Canada who was kidnapped by the Front de libération du Québec terrorist group during the October Crisis of October 1970....

, a British diplomat in October 1970.

Cross was released, and Lanctôt and the other kidnappers were allowed to leave Canada.
Lanctôt returned to Canada in 1979, and served two years in prison.
Following his release he set up a publishing house.

He is currently a columnist for the Canadian News service Canoe.ca
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