 The response, however, was criticized at the time by prominent politicians such as René Lévesque and Tommy Douglas.The events of October 1970 galvanized opposition to the use of violence in efforts to gain Quebec sovereignty and accelerated the movement towards electoral means of attaining greater autonomy and independence, including support for the sovereigntist Parti Québécois, which formed the provincial government in 1976.From 1963 to 1970 the Quebec nationalist group Front de libération du Québec detonated over 950 bombs.