Protest against "Canada's Donald Rumsfeld"

MONTREAL, Tuesday, April 3, 2007 -- Anti-war protesters disrupted the beginning of Canadian Defence Minister Gordon O’Connor’s speech earlier this afternoon in Montreal. Three women had managed to get inside the Grand Salon of the Queen Elizabeth Hotel, where O’Connor was beginning to address an audience of businessmen, senior military officers, politicians and the media. Before O’Connor’s speech another group of protesters unfurled a banner just outside the speech venue. Outside, under 100 protesters gathered for a picket called by Block the Empire-Montreal and the Echec à la guerre Coalition, to denounce Canada’s role in Afghanistan. INFO: http://blocktheempire.blogspot.com