[Snowyman]

Montreal Canadiens towards small American children during a hockey game 2 months earlier

The New York incident happened in 2002 . Not 2003 . Almost a year earlier.

There is no way to defend the actions in Montreal .

But as you said , for every action there is a reaction and labeling a group of people, in this case French Canadians , because of the actions of anti war protesting students , some of whom very well could have been American , is not fair . I know several French Canadians , who do not speak French , rather English or Joule , who after 3 or 400 years are farther removed from France than Americans are from England .

[Victoria Delsoul]

But as you said , for every action there is a reaction and labeling a group of people, in this case French Canadians , because of the actions of anti war protesting students , some of whom very well could have been American , is not fair .

I guess most of us are guilty of making generalizations in cases like these. When the majority of people act in certain way… and in this case, as indicated in the polls, 63% of Quebecers were against America going into war with Iraq. And, as far as I know, they were free to express their anger as it happened on March 2003 during a hockey game, I tend to say… French Canadians.