Editing École Polytechnique massacre (section)

===Actions against violence against women===
The massacre galvanized the Canadian women's movement, who immediately saw it as a symbol of [[violence against women]]. "The death of those young women would not be in vain, we promised", Canadian feminist [[Judy Rebick]] recalled. "We would turn our mourning into organizing to put an end to male violence against women."<ref>{{cite news|last=Rebick|first=Judy|date=December 6, 2000|title=Where's the funding for abused women?|publisher=[[CBC News]]|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/viewpoint/columns/rebick/rebick001206.html|access-date=March 7, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070321225539/http://www.cbc.ca/news/viewpoint/columns/rebick/rebick001206.html|archive-date=March 21, 2007}}</ref>

In response to the killings, a House of Commons Sub-Committee on the Status of Women was created. It released a report "The War against Women" in June 1991, which was not endorsed by the full standing committee.<ref>{{cite news|last=Vienneau|first=David|date=January 19, 1991|title=Probe on violence toward women blocked|page=A4|work=[[Toronto Star]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Hooks|first1=Tess|title=Female well-being: toward a global theory of social change|last2=LeClerc|first2=Patrice|last3=Beaujot|first3=Roderic|publisher=[[Zed Books]]|year=2005|isbn=978-1-84277-009-2|editor1=Mancini Billson, Janet|pages=102–103|chapter=Women in Canada: a century of struggle|access-date=September 20, 2020|editor2=Fluehr-Lobban, Carolyn|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a_2eWZK63_8C&pg=PA102|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210815172830/https://books.google.com/books?id=a_2eWZK63_8C&pg=PA102|archive-date=August 15, 2021|url-status=live}}</ref> But, following its recommendations, the federal government established the Canadian Panel on Violence Against Women in August 1991. The panel issued a final report, ''Changing the Landscape: Ending Violence – Achieving Equality'', in June 1993. The panel proposed a two-pronged "National Action Plan" consisting of an "Equality Action Plan" and a "Zero Tolerance Policy" designed to increase women's equality and reduce violence against women through government policy. Critics of the panel said that the plan failed to provide a workable timeline and strategy for implementation and that with more than four hundred recommendations, the final report was too diffuse to make an impact.<ref>{{cite web|last=Harder|first=Sandra|title=Violence against women: the Canadian Panel's final report|url=http://publications.gc.ca/collections/Collection-R/LoPBdP/MR/mr122-e.htm|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120312061539/http://publications.gc.ca/collections/Collection-R/LoPBdP/MR/mr122-e.htm|archive-date=March 12, 2012|access-date=February 3, 2007|publisher=Government of Canada}}</ref><ref name=":15">{{Cite book|last=Boileau|first=Josée|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aHwpEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT114|title=Because They Were Women: The Montreal Massacre|publisher=Second Story Press|year=2000|isbn=978-1-77260-143-5|pages=109–112|language=en|access-date=January 30, 2022|archive-date=January 30, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220130154446/https://books.google.com/books?id=aHwpEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT114|url-status=live}}</ref>

In Québec, family members of the victims formed a foundation to support organizations combatting violence, particularly violence against women. It has continued throughout all levels of society.<ref name=":15" /><ref name=":3" /> Survivors and their relatives have continued to speak about the issue.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Lowrie|first=Morgan|date=5 December 2021|title=Polytechnique anniversary comes as Quebec mourns spate of domestic violence killings|publisher=[[CBC News]]|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/polytechnique-anniversary-quebec-domestic-violence-1.6274178|access-date=30 January 2022|archive-date=January 30, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220130154446/https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/polytechnique-anniversary-quebec-domestic-violence-1.6274178|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Giguère|first=Frédérique|date=6 December 2021|title="Encore du travail à faire" 32 ans après Polytechnique|work=[[Journal de Montréal]]|url=https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2021/12/06/encore-du-travail-a-faire-32-ans-apres-polytechnique|access-date=30 January 2022|archive-date=January 30, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220130154448/https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2021/12/06/encore-du-travail-a-faire-32-ans-apres-polytechnique|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last1=Senior|first1=Paulette|last2=Provost|first2=Nathalie|last3=Rathjen|first3=Heidi|last4=Martin|first4=Lise|last5=Cukier|first5=Wendy|title=Thirty years after the Montreal Massacre, we're still in limbo|language=en|work=[[Toronto Star]]|url=https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2019/12/05/thirty-years-after-the-montreal-massacre-were-still-in-limbo.html|access-date=2022-02-07|archive-date=February 7, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220207032210/https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2019/12/05/thirty-years-after-the-montreal-massacre-were-still-in-limbo.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Researchers increased their study of family violence and violence against women.<ref name=":15" /> On December 6, 1995, the Quebec government adopted the "Policy on Intervention in Conjugal Violence" with the goal of detecting, preventing and ending [[domestic violence]].<ref name=":15" />