Dean scores hero welcome in Montreal

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by Judi McLeod, Canadafreepress.com
October 27, 2004

The Université de Montréal, the Université du Québec a Montreal and an international-relations think-tank had a new dean, albeit for only a day to address a passionately anti-Bush audience yesterday.

And Howard Dean was as welcome in Quebec as the fleur de lis.

Second only to France out of 10 countries surveyed in its support of presidential hopeful John Kerry, the Canadian Province of Quebec rolled out the red carpet.

Dean was in friendly territory. Seventy-one percent of La Belle Province residents, compared with 60 percent of Canada as a whole, would vote for Kerry, if only they could.

Dean was received as a conquering hero in the ballroom of Montreal’s ritzy Queen Elizabeth Hotel. The former Vermont governor sat at the head table sandwiched between Gilles Duceppe, leader of the Bloc Quebecois, and Raymond Chrétien, nephew of former Prime Minister Jean Chrétien. As Canadian ambassador to the United States, the junior Chrétien publicly expressed his support for Al Gore over Bush in 2000.

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