An immediate controversy arose about an article regarding the Dawson shootings by journalist Jan Wong, of the Toronto-based "The Globe and Mail". Three days after the event, Wong, who was born and raised in Montreal and is the daughter of Chinese immigrants, wrote a front-page piece titled "Get under the desk", in which she drew a link between all three school shootings in Quebec history (the École Polytechnique, the Concordia University and the Dawson College killings) and the nature of Quebec society under its protective language laws.