RIVIERE-OUELLE, Que. - Police say an aide to a Quebec cabinet minister was kidnapped in the early morning hours Friday.

Quebec provincial police say Nancy Michaud, a 37-year-old aide to Natural Resources Minister Claude Bechard, was taken from her home overnight as her children slept. "We were working it as a disappearance at the start," said provincial police spokesman Claude Ross.

"But early this morning the depth of the investigation transformed it into a kidnapping. Now we fear for her life."

Police say Michaud's husband called police around 2:30 a.m. when he found she wasn't at their home in Riviere-Ouelle, about 120 kilometres northeast of Quebec City.

Michaud's two children, aged six and 18 months, were sleeping without any adults in the house.

"The husband returned from work and his wife wasn't there," Ross said.

"It made her disappearance very suspicious because she's not in the habit of abandoning her children."

Police say they have no evidence Michaud's disappearance is linked to her political work.

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