MONTREAL — A diverse crowd of protesters took to the streets of Montreal on Sunday to march against racism and denounce the newly-elected Coalition Avenir Quebec government. Muslim families pushing strollers, Indigenous community leaders, masked anti-capitalist activists and members of some 50 community groups marched through the city’s downtown in a protest that stretched across several blocks. Members of Sunday’s crowd, which included a large number of women in hijabs, made it clear they weren’t among the new premier’s supporters. “You take her identity from her.”The march occurred hours after a downtown statue of Sir John A. Macdonald was spray-painted red. The Montreal statue has been spray-painted on several previous occasions, including this past August.

Source: National Post October 07, 2018 18:46 UTC