New Brunswick Member of the legislative assembly Louis Philippe McGraw from Centre Peninsule, left, rips a ribbon apart that was wrapped around the New Brunswick legislature as part of a health care demonstration in Fredericton, Wed., May 15, 2001. At right is Ann-Marie Acker, a transcriber for the legislature, who was trying to go under the ribbon before McGraw decided to rip it apart.

A member of the New Brunswick Public Employees Union holds up a peice of the ribbon, and below a member of the Canadian Labour congress shouts to the crowd during the protest.

The photo of McGraw ran the next day on the 16th in the newspaper L'Acadie Nouvelle through the Canadian Press wire service. During queston period that day the photo and the article were brought up in the house by the opposition causing the Premier to stand and defend McGraw. This caused more reports on the event and on the 18th the photo of McGraw tearing the ribbon appeared in the four major daily newspapers in New Brunswick.

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