MONTREAL — As the fifth anniversary of Quebec’s election shooting approaches, Pauline Marois says she has forgiven the man who murdered a lighting technician that night and who was also intent on killing her. Marois was on stage at a Montreal nightclub on Sept. 4, 2012, celebrating the realization of her cherished dream of becoming Quebec premier. Testimony at Richard Henry Bain’s trial revealed he told a forensic psychiatrist two months after his arrest he wanted to set fire to the venue and “kill as many separatists as possible,” including Marois. “When I was in the corridor (after being whisked off the stage), I saw smoke getting into the room and behind the stage,” she said. “I did think about it around 1985, (when Rene Levesque stepped down) when I ran for the PQ leadership,” she said.

Source: National Post August 29, 2017 09:56 UTC