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| Photo re-enactment of George Wilson panicking after PQ Premier Rene Levesque ran over and killed Canadian war veteran Edgar Trottier near Cote-des-Neiges in Montreal in 1977. |
That's George Wilson flailing his hands begging the Premier to stop his car rather than run over Edgar Trottier, an honored Canadian war veteran who had found himself lying on the road. Levesque did not stop his car.
No breathalyzer test was administered to Premier Levesque after he dragged Trottier 140 feet at 4:15 am on 6 February 1977.
Levesque was released after radical separatist Yves Michaud, who had helped Levesque design the language restrictions in Quebec and remained a close friend of the premier, told police that Levesque had not been drinking that evening.
Levesque was not tested for drunk driving because the officer supposedly didn't have a breathalyzer handy. He had spent the evening drinking and partying at Michaud's place.
It has also been reported that his secretary Corinne Cote, with whom the married Levesque had been having an affair, was actually at the wheel and he told cops he was driving just to avoid scandal.
Top Journal de Montreal news editor Jean-Denis Lamoureux didn't exactly go very critical in his coverage of the scandal.
Perhaps that's because Lamoureux had also killed a Canadian military man himself.
He planted a bomb that killed Walter Leja, although it took 29 1/2 years of pain and suffering for Leja to finally die after being maimed by the terrorist/separatist bomb Lamoureux set in 1963.
Levesque later hired Lamoureux as his chief of communications, in August 1984 to be precise.
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Splitting hairs here but technically it was Robert Bourassa with Bill 22 in 1974 who eliminated freedom of choice in language of education.
ReplyDeleteI have a sneaking suspicion that Levesque -- who spoke better English than the Queen -- was privately ashamed of Bill 101.
hi kristian... you blogged awhile back on norman olson. do you have any further info on him?
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My grandfather died in 1983, 30 years after hitting his finger with a hammer when he was putting-up a coat hanger by the door of the kitchen.
ReplyDeleteDarn those hammers!!!
Hey Naimard...
ReplyDeleteA third bomb cost Leja most of his left arm. His face and chest were crushed. He suffered brain damage, lost the ability to speak and became paralyzed on his right side. Although initial reports said Leja's chances of survival were extremely slim, he did survive.
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Wait - hold on. Explain how Lamoureux is both Levesque's chief of communications as well as the guy who planted the bomb that maimed Leja?
ReplyDeleteHow much time did he serve? When and how did he get arrested? When and how was it disclosed that he planted the bomb?
There are some big gaps here. Besides which, there's no need to make it seem Levesque was intentionally looking to run over a veteran - or anyone for that matter. Drunk driving is one thing, but how could he have known the drunk in the middle of the road was a veteran. Furthermore, knowing Cote-des-Neiges road - anyone who takes a nap in the middle of it is good as toast, drunk drivers or no drunk drivers.
More information - please,
Lamoureux was sentenced to 33 months but I don't know how long he actually served. Some of those guys like Hamer, the Anglo (possibly an RCMP plant) might have actyally served zero time behind.bars in spite of kidnapping James Cross. Anyway as soon as the bomber Lamoreux got out of jail he was hired by Pierre Peladeau and the Journal de Montreal. He was hired by Levesque in August 1984 (admitedly years after the driving incident). Levesque was not subject to a breathalyzer test supposedly because the cop didn't have one handy. Levesque was partying hearty that night as the 4:15 am incident suggests, hardly the stuff of great leaders.
ReplyDeletePhoto's lighting makes no sense : in early feb, the sun rises very late, hours after 4h15.
ReplyDeleteThrough DNA and research I now know that Edgar Trottier was my Birth Father. I was born in England (from an Irish Mother - now deceased) and Christened Gabrielle. Would anyone related to him please contact me. My email address is: jacqui.kielty@yahoo.co.uk.
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