Paul Rose Returns to Public Eye as Party Politician

Sarah Binder, "Former terrorist, now candidate, Paul Rose says he hasn't changed," Edmonton Journal, August 20, 1994, https://www.proquest.com/hnpedmontonjournal/docview/2401669868/2374044699164E4DPQ/4?accountid=14474&sourcetype=Newspapers

In 1994, Paul Rose ran for a seat in the Assemblée Nationale with Quebec’s New Democratic Party. In 1970, Rose was identified as the leader of the Chenier cell that was responsible for the kidnapping and subsequent murder of Minister Laporte. Although Rose was initially sentenced to life in prison for kidnapping and murder, he was released in 1982 on parole. Following his release, he joined the provincial NDP and ran for them in a by-election in 1992, then served as the leader from 1996-2002 after they changed their name to Parti de la democratie socialiste (Party of Democratic Socialism). Despite earning less than %1 of the vote in the 1998 election[1], simply his standing as a political leader despite his role in the worst act of terror Canada has seen in its history when most others wouldn’t even be considered for such a position with half as much baggage shows that Quebecois separatism still endure even after two failed referendums. Certainly when he declares to the public that he has not changed at all since 1970.

[1] Donnes Quebec, Election Quuebecoises de 1998, by Pierre Drouilly, https://www.donneesquebec.ca/recherche/dataset/atlas-des-elections-au-quebec/resource/bb6ad66a-54c0-42cd-8be1-f41cb2a1df7a