Maybe it's as much an issue for Canada as a whole as it is for Quebec. I say that because there seems to be a certain belief in the rest of Canada (apart from Quebec) that this type of thing is far less likely to happen outside Quebec. I would not assume that this is the case at all.

My sense, based on the limited amount of news I have heard about it, is that the shooter/terrorist paid a lot of attention to French and Quebec politics and in particular the ongoing debate in France and Quebec about identity, secularism, integration, etc.

However I would just like to point out that although hundreds of innocent people have been murdered by Islamist terrorists in France and in the rest of Europe in the past two years there has not been an attack on Muslims in France, or anywhere else in Europe, like what happened here in Canada last Sunday.