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e-1513 (National day)

E-petition
Initiated by Eric Barnabé from Québec, Quebec

Original language of petition: French

Petition to the House of Commons in Parliament assembled

Whereas:
  • On October 20, 2014, Warrant Officer Patrice Vincent, aged 53, was fatally run down by jihadist sympathizer Martin Couture-Rouleau in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, in Montérégie;
  • On October 22, 2014, Corporal Nathan Cirillo, a member of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, was gunned down without warning while on sentry duty at the National War Memorial by Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, who was himself shot to death in the Parliament Buildings by Sergeant-at-Arms Kevin Vickers;
  • Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, born in Canada in 1982 and a convert to Islam, became a fundamentalist;
  • He was considered a “high-risk traveller” by the intelligence services and had his passport confiscated in July 2014;
  • The Canadian prime minister at the time, Stephen Harper, called the shootings terrorist attacks;
  • Thomas Mulcair and Justin Trudeau also condemned the shooting; and
  • The attacks of October 20 and 22, 2014, are the first fundamentalist terrorist attacks against soldiers on Canadian soil.
We, the undersigned, citizens of Canada, call upon the House of Commons in Parliament assembled to enact legislation making October 22 National Anti-terrorism Remembrance Day in all Canadian provinces and territories.
Open for signature
February 19, 2018, at 5:20 p.m. (EDT)
Closed for signature
June 19, 2018, at 5:20 p.m. (EDT)
Photo - Pierre Paul-Hus
Charlesbourg—Haute-Saint-Charles
Conservative Caucus
Quebec