
 
 By Andy Blatchford, THE CANADIAN PRESS 
 
 
 
 
 
 MONT-TREMBLANT, Que.--Richard Henry Bain left Montreal a couple of years ago to set up a fishing lodge in the mountains north of the city and dreams of expanding his business were apparently delayed by bureaucratic roadblocks. 
 
 Hours before gunshots rang out at a Parti Quebecois rally on Tuesday, Bain had been sent a note informing him that his request for an ice-fishing licence at his lodge had been put off. 
 
 Bain is known locally as the friendly Scottish guy who occasionally wears a kilt. He has had his picture in the paper standing next to Celine Dion. He's the generous neighbour who shares a freshly caught trout and drives passengers around in his military vehicle decorated with Mickey Mouse decals. 
 
 The locals are now shocked by news that has made international headlines. 
 
 Police sources confirmed they arrested a suspect by that name in the Montreal shooting that left one person dead and made headlines around the world. 
 
 The suspect in Tuesday's attack was wearing a housecoat and black facemask when he was tackled by police. He shouted about an awakening of English-speaking Quebecers as he was whisked away. 
 
 A hospital statement said Wednesday a man in police custody was undergoing an evaluation. Police said there could be charges laid in the case Thursday. 
 
 A Facebook page says a Richard Henry Bain runs a riverside lodge near Mont-Tremblant, Que. A website for the business was taken down Wednesday. 
 
 Bain, 62, was in constant contact with officials at the local municipality, La Conception, over the past several months as he tried to expand his business, according to the village manager. 
 
 He had applied to add licences for hunting and ice fishing at the lodge, Marie-France Brisson said in an interview. 
 
 The village received a copy of a letter addressed to Bain from a biologist conducting an environmental assessment. 
 
 It said the ice-fishing licence needed further study before being approved. 
 
 The village received its copy Tuesday -- hours before the shooting. Brisson said Bain may have received the letter the same day. 
 
 "He was a man that was calm and polite who could also be frank," Brisson said. 
 
 "He could sometimes be frustrated (with the bureaucratic process)." 
 
 There is no evidence of any link between the man's business interests and the shooting. 
 
 Neighbours who live across the highway from the entrance to Bain's property couldn't believe the friendly, generous man they know as "Rick" or "Scottish" could be linked to such an incident. 
 
 Bain, who was occasionally seen wearing a kilt, would sometimes down beers with locals in the rural mountainous area close to the popular Mont-Tremblant park. 
 
 He wasn't all business, all the time. 
 
 A photo in a local newspaper from earlier this year shows Bain, dressed in a dapper black suit and white-collared shirt, standing alongside Celine Dion in Las Vegas. 
 
 The newspaper, Info du Nord Tremblant, said Bain and another man, David Bain, won VIP tickets at a local fundraising auction to see the singer last January. 
 
 Several people in the area said Bain started inviting anglers to fish for trout two years ago on the sweeping property in a dense forest. 
 
 His clients would park their vehicles on a grassy piece of land alongside the highway. Bain would drive them several kilometres up a bumpy trail into the backwoods aboard his three-axle military truck. 
 
 Bain's imposing army truck sat on the edge of the highway Wednesday, a couple of hundred metres from a locked gate leading to the property, which is on Crown land. 
 
 The olive-coloured truck catches the attention of passersby. It has Mickey Mouse decals on both doors to the cab. The image of Mickey features moose antlers instead of his trademark round mouse ears. 
 
 Neighbour Real Papineau said Bain was focused on attracting more business and asked him in the spring to hand out some pamphlets publicizing the fishing camp. 
 
 To return the favour, Papineau said Bain brought him a large brook trout as a thank you. 
 
 "Incredible," he said, shaking his head in disbelief when a reporter told him that Bain's name was linked to the killing. 
 
 "He was always in a good mood. I never heard him make any negative remarks." 
 
 Marc-Andre Cyr, the owner of a campground near Bain's lodge, also said he was friendly and never showed any anger toward French-speaking Quebecers. 
 
 Cyr said they occasionally had a beer together. They always spoke French. 
 
 "He's someone I would meet from time to time," he said. "We never talked politics." 
 
 He said he met Bain just over a year ago and that the man was new to the region. Bain joined the local chamber of commerce about a year ago. Police sources say he had relocated from Montreal. 
 
 Another man, Dominic Bouffard, who works for the local paper, said Bain is a successful businessman who occasionally took out ads to promote his lodge. Bouffard said he tried hard to network with local politicians and business leaders. 
 
 "He did everything he could to meet people in the municipality, in the (Mont-Tremblant area), and everywhere," Bouffard said. 
 
 --with files from Benjamin Shingler and Julien Arsenault. ||||| A historic Quebec election that returned the Parti Québécois to power ended in tragedy Tuesday when a gunman killed one person and wounded another, then tried to start a fire at the Montreal venue where PQ Leader Pauline Marois was celebrating her minority mandate. 
 
 Police said a suspect entered a vestibule at the back of the Metropolis nightclub and fired shots, wounding two people critically. The suspect then started a fire and ran away on foot. 
 
 One shooting victim, a 45-year-old man, died at the scene. At a 6 a.m. press conference Wednesday, Montreal police said the second shooting victim, 27, was no longer in danger. Ambulance services reported another person is in hospital suffering from shock. 
 
 Montreal police spokesmen said they have arrested a 62-year-old man from Quebec, but not Montreal, who spoke French with an accent. The suspect has not been identified. Police have opened a homicide investigation and have seized two firearms. Sureté du Québec spokesman Guy Lapointe says police cannot rule out that Ms. Marois was the intended target. 
 
 “The English are waking up, the English are waking up ... It's payback ... Yeah, yeah, that’s enough,” the man said as police officers led him away in handcuffs. The suspect, a heavyset, bespectacled man, wore a balaclava, shorts and what appeared to be a bathrobe. 
 
 [Editor's note: Comments were originally open on this story. However we have now closed comments for legal reasons following the arrest of a man after people were shot and a fire was set outside the PQ victory celebration. Readers can still access comments posted earlier by clicking here.] 
 
 Ms. Marois was in the middle of her victory speech, after narrowly defeating Jean Charest’s Liberals by a handful of seats and about one percentage point in the popular vote, when several plainclothes police officers from her security detail suddenly burst on stage and pulled her away, shouting "Go with us, madam!" She later returned and spoke to the crowd. 
 
 Earlier, Ms. Marois had acknowledged the ambivalence of Quebec voters in giving her a narrow minority mandate. 
 
 "We will respect that choice by governing with all the other elected lawmakers. We'll make the necessary compromises to make the state work ... We'll govern in a responsible way." 
 
 Ms. Marois, who had been severely criticized for campaigning on identity and language themes, had some conciliatory words for Quebec's anglophone and native communities, speaking of their shared history and, in a rare move for her, speaking in English to say their rights would be respected. 
 
 However, she struck a tougher stance towards the rest of Canada. 
 
 "As a nation, we want to take ourselves the decisions that affect us. We want a country. And we'll have it." 
 
 Liberal Leader Jean Charest, the outgoing premier, lost in his riding, for the first time in a 28-year career that began when he was elected to Parliament on this day in 1984. 
 
 "The results of this election speaks to the fact the future of Quebec lies within Canada," he said. He also quipped that, "I want to thank the activists of the Liberal party who once again proved the polls wrong." 
 
 In his concession speech, Mr. Charest boasted that his party "will leave the house in good order." 
 
 Mr. Charest predicted that the Liberals would bounce back. Pointing an index up, he noted that there was "one percentage point in the popular vote between us (and the PQ)." 
 
 He made no comments about his political future. A press conference is scheduled for Wednesday. 
 
 In a statement issued early Wednesday by Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s office, he said: “We are disturbed by this violence and our thoughts are with the victims and their loved ones.” 
 
 Earlier, Mr. Harper congratulated Ms. Marois — then delivered a pointed barb aimed at the independence project. “We don’t believe Quebeckers want to reopen the old constitutional quarrels of the past,” he said in a statement. 
 
 “Our government will remain focused on jobs, economic growth and good economic management. We believe economic issues and jobs are also the priority of Quebeckers. In that sense, we will continue working with the Government of Quebec on those common objectives.” 
 
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– A historic victory for the separatist Parti Quebecois was marred by an attack on a victory rally for premier-elect Pauline Marois. A man opened fire during her victory speech, killing one person and critically wounding another, reports CTV. The suspect, a man in his 50s, then started a fire and ran away. He was pursued by firefighters and held until police arrived. Witnesses reported hearing the man say—in French—"That's enough" and "The Anglos are waking up," the Globe and Mail reports. After nine years in opposition, the Parti Quebecois won a minority mandate in the Canadian province's election. Leaders have promised to confront the federal government and win more powers for the province. Another pro-independence referendum is a possibility, although polls show support for independence is much lower than in 1995, when the pro-independence side lost a referendum by a margin of just 1%. "I have convictions and I am going to defend them," Marois said during her victory speech. "There will be a referendum when the Quebec population wants a referendum."