Pasquin wrote:
This is just like the attempted assassination of Pauline Marois during her victory celebration didn't result in any backlash against the anglo-quebecker community despite one person dying.
Well, in terms of the mass psychological impact, I think there might be a difference between an assassination attempt, even one that takes out collateral, and a successful assassination. It would be the difference that exists between public recognition afforded to the name Giussepe Zangara, versus that afforded to the name Lee Harvey Oswald.
And at the time that Richard Henry Bain allegedly carried out his attempt, Marois was the leader of a not-excessively popular political party, fronting a political agenda that had had its last heyday in the mid-90s.
On the other end of the spectrum, you've got the Milk-Moscone murders in 1979. I daresay that there aren't too many gay people(or straight people for that matter) in San Francisco who wouldn't recognize the name Dan White, nor have pretty intense opinions about what he did. Even without the farcical judicial outcome. And there was indeed a pretty strong outpouring of resentment against the SFPD and other perceived institutions of anti-gay bigorty in SF.
Not saying that Canadian attitudes toward an American assassin of PET would be all the way over on the "Dan White" end of the spectrum, but probably closer to that than to Richard Henry Bain.