December 06, 2010
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Nathan Statement on the 21st Anniversary of the Montreal Massacre
21 years ago today 14 innocent women were murdered at Montreal engineering school École Polytechnique by an enraged gunman intent on killing and maiming as many women as possible.
Canadians across the country will mark this grim anniversary by pausing to remember those whose lives where mercilessly cut short or forever altered on December 6, 1989. We remember and mourn the loss of Geneviève Bergeron, Hélène Colgan, Nathalie Croteau, Barbara Daigneault, Anne-Marie Edward, Maud Haviernick, Maryse Laganière, Maryse Leclair, Anne-Marie Lemay, Sonia Pelletier, Michèle Richard, Annie St-Arneault, Annie Turcotte, Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz. We also remember dozens of other victims of that senseless tragedy – the injured, and families and friends of the dead and injured.
It is important that our memories also be emboldened by actions. Every Canadian has a responsibility to do what he or she can to help stop violence against women – whether it be violence in the home, the workplace, in schools or elsewhere. Here in the Northwest, we are also fighting the terrible reality of violence against women along hundreds of kilometres of the Highway of Tears.
Today, we remember the victims of violence against women.
Tomorrow, we continue our fight against violence against women and recommit ourselves to putting an end to the very worst form of humankind turning on itself.
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