Montreal's most radical store: the short-lived separatist MPQ boutique on St. Catherine E.

 The MPQ Boutique on St. Catherine near Aird was one of the more unusual retail outlets in Montreal when it was open between around 2010 to 2012.
   The MPQ was a militia that believed it had to be ready to take up arms for the cause of Quebec sovereignty.
  Its leader Serge Provost was a carpenter who liked to wear military gear and worried a lot about politics,
  The Milice patriotique québécoise started around 2000 and claimed to have about 200 members eight years later, each member paying a $100 fee. Provost claimed to have 2,000 members in 2012.
    Its members were sworn to secrecy and required to participate in a few activities each year.
   Its boutique at 4653 St. Catherine E. had a clumsily hand-painted sign for a while, which was later removed. It apparently sold various Quebec-oriented trinkets with plenty of fleur-de-lys mugs for sale alongside the Loco Locass separatist rap CDs.
   Customers were required to navigate a German Shepherd to enter, as seen in this photo Coolopolis snapped in 2012. The MPQ held its meetings there as well.
   The boutique is long gone. It appears that the MPQ has disappeared as well, as nothing has been heard from then since a flurry of publicity in 2012. All websites relating to the group have disappeared.