Today, on the steps of Parliament, in the cold, parents of the fourteen women murdered at L'Ecole Polytechnique gathered with other women wearing green scarves to remember those young lives that were cut short so brutally on that fateful December day by a semi-automatic rifle. Marc Lépine was not a known criminal. He was a quiet man.

Following the massacre, the federal Liberal government created a gun registry that would identify where guns were located in our communities, and ensure that family members and others could identify who are predisposed to violence. The police chiefs supported it; it was an important tool for their officers.

Harper's government has canceled the registry, and are going to destroy the existing database. Today, Suzanne LaPlante-Edward (the mother of Anne-Marie Edward, one of the murdered women) told us that the Bill was passed on the same day her daughter would have celebrated her 43rd birthday. What cruel timing.

67% of women murdered in domestic violence are killed with a gun. The majority of those live in rural Canada, where guns are commonplace.

Those are the facts.

No amount of wishing, spinning or bullying by this government will change that.