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EPISODE · Oct 2, 2025 · 37 MIN

After a deadly shooting in Laval, worries about ‘disorganized crime.’ Plus: Have serious discussions become impossible to have?

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Elias Makos is joined by Caroline Codsi, Founder & Chief Equity Officer, Women in Governance, and Victor Henriquez, Public affairs and crisis management specialist at Public Strategy and Conseil. A brazen daytime shooting that left one dead at a Starbucks in Laval appears to be linked to organized crime, says the province’s public security minister Paul St-Pierre Plamondon is pushing back against his critics and taking aim at some of the language used against him and his party  The day after François Legault denounced what he called an “onslaught of radical Islamism,” Secularism Minister Jean-François Roberge urged people on Wednesday to wake up to the threat.

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