MINOR ELECTION GOVERNMENT IN QUEBEC DREW DANGEROUS AIM (640 hits)
YOUR WORLD NEWS SEPTEMBER 2012 DAY 5 Montreal, CA
A Minor election win drew national and world attention as a gunman threatened safety at a policital event in Montreal on September 05, 2012. The gunman opened fire during a midnight victory rally where the leader of Quebec's separist Parti Quebecois was celebrating a election win the the Canadian province. One person was critically injured and another fatally wounded. The winner Pauline Mariois was elected the first female premier of Quebec was quickly taken from the stage as she prepared to give a victory speech in front of hundreds of supporters. Montreal police were not certain if the gunman was aiming to assasinate Marois, but he the suspected gunman was apprended at the scene however, not before he started a small fire where he was captured. Some of the tensions has grown between the French and the English since the early 1970's. The Parti Qubecois; or PQ for short held independence referendums in 1980 and in 1995, but both failed. In this recent election the PQ won 3.9 percent compared to 3.2 from the Liberals. Liberals has won three elections from 2003-2008, but has increased with unpopular allegatons of corruption in industry linking financing to political Marois. Much of this news brought new focus to Quebec's minor government although it also alarmed many civilians of Quebec to see such violence taking place in a public area and one that is also senative to a very lower crime rate raced terror in the attention of politicans in Quebec. After the suspected gunman was in custody, Marois continued her speech and promised to strenghten laws designed to ensure the dominance of the French language which has worried some in the minority English speaking community. News sources reported the suspected masked gunman was led away by police shouting: "The English are waking up!"
