 On September 21, 2006, "The Globe and Mail" published an editorial on the affair.Calling the controversy a "small uproar", it defended the right of the journalist to question such phenomena, the "need to ask hard questions and explore uncomfortable avenues", saying that he "merely wondered" whether the marginalization and alienation of the three shooters could be associated with the murders.In March 2007, during a discussion with students at l'Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, the PQ leader André Boisclair recalled his studies in Boston.