Mr. Speaker, tomorrow marks the 25th anniversary of the École Polytechnique massacre in Montreal.
For the past 24 years I have pleaded with the media to honour the 14 innocent victims rather than recall the name of the misogynist murderer.
Today I would like to honour 12 posthumous engineers, Annie Turcotte, Annie St-Arneault, Michèle Richard, Sonia Pelletier, Anne-Marie Lemay, Maryse Leclair, Maud Haviernick, Anne-Marie Edward, Barbara Daigneault, Nathalie Croteau, Hélène Colgan and Geneviève Bergeron.
I also honour budget clerk Maryse Laganiere, nurse Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz , and all those who were present at École Polytechnique on that day, also victims of this madness. We continue to remember them and tell their families that we share their sorrow.