Twenty-seven years after a gunman separated female and male students at the Ecole Polytechnique and murdered 14 women for participating in the engineering program, a survivor is decrying the state of gun control.
Fourteen white roses lay in front of the plaque on the side of the school, 14 streams of light will beam, one by one from the lookout on Mount Royal this evening, representing the 14 women.
Heidi Rathjen survived the massacre 27 years ago and has been fighting for gun control since.
She says military grade weapons can be obtained, in some cases, more easily than when the massacre occured.
Rathjen says she's waiting on the prime minister to make good on his campaign promise to tighten the rules.
"When are the Liberals going to respect their election promises and bring forward tougher gun control to undo much of the damage that was done by the Conservatives," said Rathjen.
She says hobbyists have lobbied the government into allowing assault weapons into Canadian homes, putting citizens unnecessarily at risk.