Today, the Hon. Andrew Scheer, Leader of Canada\u2019s Conservatives and of the Official Opposition, released the following statement on the anniversary of the \u00c9cole Polytechnique massacre:<\/p>\n
\u201cThere were 14 of them. They were young, smart, and filled with ambition. Exactly 30 years ago today, these young women were heading to university.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen they got up that morning, maybe they were nervously thinking of the exam period starting soon. They might have been thinking of future projects, the upcoming holidays, or reuniting with their families and loved ones.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll their hopes and dreams were brutally ended that afternoon, when a man committed a violent crime. On December 6th<\/sup>, 1989, at the \u00c9cole Polytechnique, he separated men and women and started shooting the women, murdering 14 women and wounding many others.<\/p>\n \u201cGenevi\u00e8ve Bergeron, H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Colgan, Nathalie Croteau, Barbara Daigneault, Anne-Marie Edward, Maud Haviernick, Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz, Maryse Lagani\u00e8re, Maryse Leclair, Anne-Marie Lemay, Sonia Pelletier, Mich\u00e8le Richard, Annie St-Arneault, and Annie Turcotte lost their lives.<\/p>\n \u201cThe victims of the \u00c9cole Polytechnique were targeted because they were women. Thirty years later, we pause on this day, December 6th<\/sup>, to mark the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women.<\/p>\n \u201cAs a father of three young girls, as a brother to two sisters and as a husband, it pains me to think that women are still a target, that women are concerned for their safety, just because they are women.<\/p>\n \u201cI call on all Canadians to demonstrate how much we value the safety, dignity and value of every life, of every single woman.<\/p>\n \u201cLet us remember them, and through our actions, thirty years later, honour the memory of these innocent victims.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today, the Hon. Andrew Scheer, Leader of Canada\u2019s Conservatives and of the Official Opposition, released the following statement on the anniversary of the \u00c9cole Polytechnique massacre: \u201cThere were 14 of them. They were young, smart, and filled with ambition. Exactly 30 years ago today, these young women were heading to university. \u201cWhen they got up …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-federal"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-20 14:07:40","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26473,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26472\/revisions\/26473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}