Mr. Speaker, I want to let the victims of the October crisis tell their stories.
People were arrested. Gilles Paquin said that they arrived at his home between 4:30 and 5 in the morning and two men with rifles were kicking in the door. Mr. Paquin was imprisoned for seven days without being allowed to shower.
Louis Hains was arrested by the police. He says that the police arrested the whole group. Nicolas was 16, Pascal was 19 and he was 20. He is pretty sure that he remained in prison for a week. However, he says that when you are in a place where the lights are on all the time, you cannot keep track of whether it is day, evening or night, the day before yesterday or tomorrow.
Gaëtan Dostie was woken up with a machine gun, kept under watch and had a machine gun pointed at him for four or five hours. It was frightening, he says.
There are 494 other Quebeckers with similar stories. The federal government owes them an apology.