Were trudeaus actions right? If yes? Why? Specific gains? If no, why not, what else should he have done?

Were trudeaus actions right? If yes? Why? Specific gains? If no, why not, what else should he have done? Are you willing to sacrifice your freedoms to prevent terrorism? Do you trust the government to decide for you? Why or why not
Name:
Institution
Trudeaus Actions
The actions by Pierre Elliott Trudeau to invoke the War Measures Act were coined from a series of events that led to the two kidnappings of British trade commissioner, Cross Richard and Pierre Laporte, Quebec’s labour minister and the government's senior Cabinet minister, by the Front de Libération du Québec (FLQ) members in Quebec province in October 1970 (Levesque, 1995). The kidnappers were threatening to kill Cross if the Canadian government did not release 23 prison inmates charged in Canada with Front related crimes. The FLQ cited that those inmates were political prisoners, and also wanted their manifesto to be read on the Canadian national television.
These are some of the situations that resulted to the implementation of War Measures Act meant. This implementation meant that Trudeau had endowed on himself the power to arrest and hold in jail indefinitely anyone he wished, but without charging them with any crime (Trudeau, 1993). The implementation of this law also gave Pierre Trudeau the powers to;
Censor, control and suppress publications, communications, maps, writings, photographs, and plans.
Arrest put into custody exclusively and deport non-citizens.
Control the ports, harbours and territorial Canadian waters as well as the movements of vessels.
Have control over transportation by air, land or water and the transportation of persons or things.
Control over trade, production, importation, exportation, and manufacture.
Control, Appropriation, forfeit, and disposition of property and their usage thereof.
The question of whether implementation of War Measures Act by Trudeau was the right thing to do has been the subject of hotly debated subject in the history of Canada today. A Gallup poll that was taken in 1970 December revealed that an average of 87.5 % of both the English-speaking Canadians and French-speaking Canadians supported the implementation of the Act. Notwithstanding, there are a minority of people who expressed their voices against the usage of this law (Clément, 2008). The event has been perceived as both duly necessary and unjustified on the other hand. However, according to my opinions, Trudeau did not do the right thing as he gave himself so much power such as has been listed above.
The positive thing is that Trudeau did not use the totalitarian power that the act gave him. However, Trudeau used the powers in (b) above extensively where 497 individuals were arrested of which only 62 of them were released without charges. Prominent leaders, such as Robert Stanfield, René Lévesque and Tommy Douglas opposed the step by Trudeau to invoke that law because they thought that the...