OTTAWA — A former member of the terrorist FLQ is among several people promising to protest Prince Charles's upcoming visit to Quebec.

The prince will make his first stop in the province in 33 years during a 10-day tour of Canada next month.

Pierre Schneider, once a member of the long-defunct Front de liberation du Quebec, predicted "fireworks" during the visit but refused to offer any details in order to keep them a surprise.

But he said there will be no violence.

"We don't need to commit violent acts, as we did in the past, to get the message across the world that Quebec doesn't want the monarchy," he said.

"By using our imagination, we can do a lot of things."

Two groups -- the Reseau de resistance du Quebecois and the Societe Saint-Jean Baptiste -- also confirmed they're planning protest events but they too are keeping mum about what they have in mind.

No members of the sovereignty movement's established political parties -- the Bloc Quebecois and the Parti Quebecois -- plan to attend the protests, according to officials with both parties.

The FLQ waged a campaign of bombings in the 1960s and was responsible for the 1970 October Crisis, when it killed a provincial cabinet minister and kidnapped a British trade official.

It quickly disappeared and has not been active since.

Schneider was a co-founder of the FLQ and did several years in prison. He later went on to a journalism career and became an executive at one Montreal newspaper.

Earlier this week, one pro-independence protester with a history of disrupting events, Patrick Bourgeois, promised to "scorch the ears" of the royal visitor if he set foot on Quebec territory.

He directed a string of epithets at the British monarchy, calling it, among other things, an anti-democratic relic and a reviled symbol in Quebec.

Loud protests have greeted past royal visits to the province, including by the Queen. For his part, Charles has not been in Quebec since the 1976 Olympic Games were held in Montreal.