Bloc Québécois Leader, Gilles Duceppe, was confronted by his first heckler of the election campaign today.

Duceppe was delivering a speech full of attacks against Stephen Harper to around 800 students at l'Université de Montréal, when a man began shouting from the back of the amphitheatre.

"What are you going to do about equal rights for parents?" the man shouted in French, cutting Duceppe off in mid-sentence.

The protester with the group Fathers for Justice was quietly escorted from the room, but not before Duceppe quickly retorted, "We'll get there," to wild applause from the crowd.

"But equal rights for parents begins with equal rights for men and women," Duceppe continued, a tacit shot at the Conservative bill which would make killing a fetus in the commission of a crime punishable, and which Duceppe says would lead to the denial of free access to abortions.

— Tim Duboyce