(Ottawa) Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be in Laval Thursday evening to attend the candlelight vigil in memory of the little victims of the tragedy that occurred Wednesday in a daycare center.
He will be at the Sainte-Rose-de-Lima church around 6:30 p.m. with the mayor of Laval, Stéphane Boyer, it was confirmed at his office.
A little earlier in the day, his political lieutenant for Quebec, Pablo Rodriguez, and the Minister of Public Security, Marco Mendicino, had gone to the scene of the tragedy, in the Sainte-Rose district.
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The director of the SPVL Pierre Briochet, the mayor of Laval Stéphane Boyer, the provincial deputy for Sainte-Rose Christopher Skeete, the federal Minister of Public Security Marco Mendicinole and the federal Minister of Heritage Pablo Rodriguez
They laid a wreath of white flowers on a snowdrift located just opposite the early childhood center where the tragedy took place.
The leader of the Bloc Québécois will do the same thing at the end of the afternoon in the company of three of his MPs, including Nathalie Sinclair-Desgagné, of Terrebonne, who will stay for the candlelight vigil.
The leader of the official opposition, Pierre Poilievre, will not attend the event in the evening, we were told.
As for the New Democrat leader, Jagmeet Singh, he intends to go there Sunday morning.
In the House of Commons on Thursday, two elected Liberals delivered speeches to honor the memory of the little victims and to salute the rapid interventions of the authorities and citizens.
MP Yves Robillard, who represents the Laval riding of Marc-Aurèle-Fortin, had to stop a few times, choking with sobs.
The day before, all members of the House of Commons had observed a minute of silence in memory of the victims.