Motorcyclists protest Quebec insurance hikes

Thousands of Quebec motorcyclists staged a rolling, plodding protest in different regions of the province over the long weekend.

It was the 19th time since last year that the bikers have held an Operation Escargot, as it's known.

The bike owners drove together at the minimum speed allowed by law — which on expressways is a sluggish 60 kilometres an hour — to voice their discontent with hikes in the premiums levied by Quebec's automobile insurance corporation, the SAAQ.