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Another Remembrance day
December 2, 2015 · 0 Comments
ALTHOUGH IT’S JUST three weeks since the official Remembrance Day, it’s entirely fitting that next Sunday should be observed locally as the National Day of Remembrance on Violence Against Women. It was 16 years ago, on December 6, 1989, that 25-year-old Marc Lépine, armed with a Mini-14 rifle and a hunting knife, shot 28 people in Montreal’s École Polytechnique, killing 14 women, before committing suicide.
After claiming that he was “fighting feminism” and calling the women “a bunch of feminists,” he shot all nine women in the room, killing six.
He then moved through corridors, the cafeteria, and another classroom, specifically targeting women to shoot. Overall, he killed 14 women and wounded 10 other women and four men in just under 20 minutes before turning the gun on himself. We couldn’t agree more with the contention that the current response to violence against women in Canada has failed to lower the levels of violence, or to adequately protect and educate the populaion.
Clearly, gender-based violence is something we can prevent and work towards eliminating in Canada. And just as clearly, there are grounds for creating a national action plan targeting the violence.
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