Mr. Speaker, Saturday, December 6 will mark the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women.
Eight years ago, Geneviève Bergeron, Hélène Colgan, Nathalie Croteau, Barbara Daigneault, Anne-Marie Edward, Maud Haviernick, Barbara Maria Klucznik, Maryse Laganière, Maryse Leclair, Anne-Marie Lemay, Sonia Pelletier, Michèle Richard, Annie Turcotte and Annie St-Arneault were assassinated at the École Polytechnique de Montréal.
The pain of this day is still with us. We mourn their deaths, as we mourn all women who have died through violence.
I urge all members to work with women's groups, communities, businesses and individual citizens to end violence against women.