Mr. Speaker, a terrible human drama, the senseless murder of police officer André Lalonde, has shocked all of Quebec. A member of the Montreal Urban Community's police force for 29 years, Mr. Lalonde was barely two months short of a well-deserved retirement. Today, his wife and two children must go on without him.
In the face of such a horrifying act, we must insist that our legal system deal fairly but firmly with the murderer of officer Lalonde. Our government has already shown its determination to fight violence and crime by passing the gun control bill last year. There will be other measures to complement the initiatives of our government, in order to assure Canadians that other families will not have to go through the suffering that the members of the Lalonde family are going through today.
I join with their friends and relatives in offering my deepest condolences.