Dion clearly thinks it s assault. He ordered an aide to call the police and file a complaint minutes after he was hit. Dion was the 11th victim of the self-styled pied pipers who take aim at public figures and see themselves as a voice of the powerless in society. The pie is very benign. It isn t an attack against the person but a symbolic attack.
Some people don t agree.
One pie man is going to court on Wednesday for hitting former Quebec premier Jacques Parizeau. But the Entartistes say they had nothing to do with Parizeau s pieing. The group is a chapter of a Belgian organization that has been around for more than 30 years. Aiming at people they deem incapable of laughing at themselves is its stock and trade. The Montreal cell, formed in 1998, is composed of holdovers from the defunct Rhinoceros party of Canada.