Mr. Speaker, I thought for a moment of adding a red rose dedicated to Marc Lépine's mother, but I decided against it because the violence done to this woman in the evening of December 6 went beyond imagination. This woman died deep in her soul.
I want to tell her today what I could not tell her on December 6, 1989: We share your pain in solidarity and we refuse to condone daily violence because it always erupts in the end, leaving indelible scars.
I say to the grieving families, particularly the three families in Laval, that they are in our thoughts and that this ultimate sacrifice has become the symbol of the campaign to eliminate violence against women.