L'Isle-Verte, Quebec
1 February 2014
Obviously I'm here, we're here, my wife, my colleague Denis, we're all here to really express all our condolences and our sympathy to the victims, to their families, and to the entire community here.
As I said, this is a very beautiful place but this is a very big tragedy.
And I think it's something that everybody can identify with.
We all have or have had parents, grandparents who've become all elderly, who are terribly vulnerable.
And when we see something like this, I think it just breaks the heart of everybody.
So I do hope that the community here, the people here will take a little bit of comfort from the thoughts and the prayers that they have from people all across the country.
Finally, I just want to say something I said earlier, I would like to thank everyone who helped in this situation.
But today, I've had the opportunity to meet literally hundreds of first responders, of various social governmental services personnel who are here and volunteers.
And they've come from this region and from all over the province and it really is very impressive the work they've done to help and to give comfort to this community.
Thanks.
