Hon GERRY BROWNLEE (National): It is quite appropriate that the House takes time today to remember the tragedy that occurred just three years ago. It is a day that will live in the memory of anyone who was in Christchurch at the time, for all of their life. We used to ask the question, "Where were you when the earthquake struck?" A whole new generation of kids will be asking, "Where were you when the Al Noor Mosque was attacked, and those 51 people lost their lives to the bullets of a deranged gunman?" They'll remember it because schools were locked down, business places were locked down. The city was, for a time, almost under siege. I'm sure it's nothing like what is being experienced by others in other parts of the world at the moment, but it was a frightening time for everyone. And while it's not possible to fully empathise with the emotions that come with the loss of loved ones, with the injuries to loved ones, and to the disruption, terrible disruption, to families who were deeply affected by this—the victims of that gunman—it is possible to empathise with, in a shared way, the violation that that act caused to our otherwise peaceable community. 