Trouble is, there was no head to be found.
If you're going to embrace ignorance, I guess you might as well do it with gusto. The respectable reason to be in Quebec was for the Summit of the Americas, a gathering of 34 heads of state from across the western hemisphere. The most important business at their meeting was the ongoing effort to negotiate a Free Trade Area of the Americas a trade barrier-free zone stretching from Alaska to Argentina. As it turned out, youth hostels aren't necessarily full of young people. The Inn of Peace was instead the makeshift headquarters of the League for the Revolutionary Party, or LRP, whose members seemed to be mostly bitter, middle-aged union guys from New York.