‘We will emerge stronger’: B.C. politician praises resilience after festival tragedy [Video]

We must “continue to wrap our arms around” the Filipino community as it deals with the burden of the Lapu-Lapu Day tragedy that killed 11 people, British Columbia legislator Mable Elmore said on Monday. 

Elmore received a standing ovation on her first day back in the legislature since the alleged attack April 26, when an SUV plowed through a crowd of festivalgoers in the Vancouver-Kensington riding she represents.

She told her colleagues that people who are suffering have summoned courage and are turning sadness and despair into love and meaning.

“The unimaginable tragedy that struck after the Lapu-Lapu festival reminds us about our shared humanity. It reminds us that our humanity is all too fragile and how life is but a moment that may be gone the next,” she said.

“But there is hope, because the tragedy also demonstrates that our humanity is resilient, we will heal, we will rise, …