Mrs. Margaret McCuaig-Johnston (Senior Fellow, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs and Institute of Science, Society and Policy, University of Ottawa, As an Individual) at the Canada-China Relations Committee

Thank you, Mr. Chair.

I too am wearing a white ribbon, as many MPs are, for December 6. That's because I was the director responsible for women in science and engineering in 1989 when the Polytechnique attack took place. It was MPs themselves who started wearing the white ribbon at that moment. Others, like myself, followed suit.

I have kept my white ribbon all these years and I bring it out every year.

Thank you, Mr. Chair.