National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women

On December 6, 1989 Marc Lepine entered L'Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal and killed Genevieve Bergeron, Helen Colgan, Nathalie Croteau, Barbara Daigneault, Anne-Marie Edward, Maud Haviernick, Maryse Laganiere, Anne-Marie Lemay, Sonia Pelletier, Michele Richard, Annie St-Arneault, Annie Turcotte and Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz. This event has become known as the Montreal Massacre.

Since 1991 we have marked the anniversary of this tragedy with the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women. On this above all days we remember all women who have been killed and harmed by men. The fourteen killed at L'Ecole Polytechnique were killed because they were women, and because Lepine had a violent hatred of feminists.

We must stand against all violence against women, and take every possible action to ensure that no woman is killed by her partner or because she is a woman. We must also act to ensure that women are equal in all ways to men.

May the fourteen and all other women killed by men rest in peace.

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