I dunno -- I associate CFB Trenton and the forces generally with a kind of working-class culture, if not the kind of working-class politics that takes people left. I think Michelle is right to say that this will come as a huge shock to the people of Quinte West, who are used to thinking of everything about Trenton in a particular way. It's very heart-on-sleeves stuff, and it's not politically sophisticated -- the people I'm thinking of don't like politicians much. But this will give them a jolt.

About class and the military: some of the brass, especially the ones who sit in offices in Ottawa, come from privileged backgrounds, but not all, and I don't think this guy was very far up the chain (except at Trenton). I'd like to know whether he was ever in the battlefield, eg. We're hearing a lot of horror stories, really a lot, from the U.S. these days, about Iraq vets with PTSD who do very strange things, or maybe just commit suicide. A dad who waterboards his own four-year-old daughter, eg?

There's just too much we don't know yet. Looking at the timeline of the assaults, I really wonder whether the police weren't close enough to stop the last one. They sure connected the dots very quickly afterwards.