[A Formerly Proud Canadian]

In 1984, Denis Lortie attacked the Quebec Assemblée National (provincial legislature) using two machine guns, killing three and injured 13. The Sergeant-at-Arms, René Jalbert, talked Lortie into surrendering with no further loss of life.

Both Vickers and Jalbert had decades of para-military/military experience (30+ years of RCMP for Vickers and 30+ years with Canadian Forces for Jalbert).

[naturalman1975]

Thank you for that - that certainly does qualify as another Sergeant-at-Arms of a Parliament doing the ancient job to perfection.