e-1513 (National day)
Original language of petition: French
Petition to the House of Commons in Parliament assembled
- 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.
- Open for signature
- February 19, 2018, at 5:20 p.m. (EDT)
- Closed for signature
- June 19, 2018, at 5:20 p.m. (EDT)