Jean Lapierre statue taken down

The headline here, Cols bleus: la statue de Jean Lapierre disparaît, sounded like someone had made off with it, but apparently the blue collar union decided it was time to take it down, although the reasoning seems a little thin – “L’histoire du 301 n’est pas l’histoire d’un seul homme.” La Presse says the union wants to distance itself from his methods.

You can see the bust here on Streetview – it wasn’t exactly a dominant feature of the landscape. (This is not the politician and political commentator Jean Lapierre, but the organizer who headed the blue collar union from 1985 to 2003. As far as I can make out, this Lapierre is still alive.)