Mr. Speaker, I want to let the victims of the October crisis tell their stories.
People like Gilles Paquin, who said, “They arrived at my home between 4:30 and 5 in the morning…they were kicking in the door, two men with rifles.” Mr. Paquin was imprisoned for seven days, without being allowed to shower.
People like Louis Hains, arrested by the police. Mr. Hains said, “The police arrested the whole group: Nicolas, 16 years old, Pascal, 19 years old, and me, 20 years old. I am pretty sure I stayed for a week…but when you are in a place where the lights are on all the time, at one point you lose track of whether it is day or evening, whether it is yesterday, the day before yesterday or tomorrow.”
People like Gaëtan Dostie, who said, “When you are woken up with a machine gun and kept under watch with a machine gun pointed at you for four or five hours, you are afraid.”
There are 494 other Quebeckers with similar stories. The federal government owes them an apology.