As a serial killer Clifford Olson was a rat a man who told on others while in prison, he was also a man the police had a hard time tracking down.  While on the loose Olson continuously switched rental cars and maneuvered inexplicable U-turns to keep his followers confused and off his trail. Olson is a sorry excuse for a man as he preyed on young children. By 1981 Olson had killed ten children in southern British Columbia. He would later kill his eleventh victim.  He was arrested August 12 1981, while it was still unknown at that time to the police how many children he had actually murdered. It was not until he was charged with the first degree murder of Judy Kozma on August 18 18981, that Olson gave a full confession. Negotiating with the police Olson offered the location of ten bodies and a freebie for $100 000 on August 21 1981.

It is unknown why Clifford Olson found such pleasure in the torturing of young children. He has never shown remorse towards the families of his victims saying “If I gave a shit about he parents I wouldn’t have killed the kid.” The only explanation he offers up for his actions is saying that he confessed so that he could live with himself. He says he knew what he had done and needed to give back the bodies to their families for a proper Christian burial in order to live with himself. Talking about being able to live with himself or the pain of never seeing his wife and son, Olson shows that he is a despicable man with no regard for human life, as he only cares about himself. 

On December 6 1989 Marc Lepine went on a mass sexist motivated killing spree at the Ecole Polytechnique at the University of Montreal. The six story brick building enrolled about 5000 students at the time of Lepine’s murderous rage. Beneath his sweater Lepine had strapped on a sheath containing a six-inch hunting knife. He also had a lightweight semi-automatic rifle. Lepine went from class room to class room a little after 5pm. randomly choosing his female victims. Lepine had no regard or respect for the females at the University of Montreal as he attached a high-capacity banana clip magazine so he could fire 30 rounds in quick succession. Before Lepine lined up his first victims he shouted “You’re all a bunch of feminists! And I hate feminists!”In twenty minutes Lepine had killed fourteen women, injured ten other women and four men.Lepine turned the gun on himself, leaving a letter in his pocket explaining his actions. 

Marc Lepine stated that he had waited until he had used up his savings (over $750 on the weapon and ammunition) before he could do “his deed,” He wrote that feminists had always ruined his life and in seven years of life there was no joy. “I have decided to stop those shrews dead in their tracks…The feminists always have a talent for enraging me. They want to retain the advantages of being women…while trying to grab those of men…”  Along with his note of explanation Lepine had left a list of names of 19 “radical feminists”; those who were mentioned in newspapers, female police officers and politicians. Lepine had decided that he did not have the time to execute them all so he had instead decided to make one clear statement. A symbolic attack on women everywhere who were trying to get ahead in positions Lepine felt were only suitable for men. 

I believe that there is a chance for situations to occur similar to these two stated cases. Although we would all hope for nothing horrific to happen again in Canada, it is a high hope. There are many people out around us who are mentally disturbed, people who have no regard for human life, people who are unable to receive the professional help they need. There will never be a way to fully stop monstrous people like Clifford Olson and Marc Lepine; because people like that do what they believe needs to be done. They do it in a way that can be difficult to track down and understand.  They do it in a way to purposely hurt others in order to get their point across and to be heard. It is hard to imagine something this horrific happening somewhere near us, but in reality Clifford Olson was near us. And Marc Lepine was near people who thought they were safe as well.