Marc Lépine  born Gamil Rodrigue Liass Gharbi; 1964 – 1989) was a Canadian mass murderer from Montreal, Quebec, who in 1989 murdered 14 women,  at the École Polytechnique. Lépine was born Gamil Rodrigue Liass Gharbi in Montreal, the son of a Canadian nurse and an Algerian businessman. His father was abusive and contemptuous of women. It had nothing to do with  general Canadian  male attitudes toward women.