... . In November 1992, thirteen-year-old Virginie Lariviere, began a petition to help censor violence on T.V. shortly after the rape and murder of her younger sister. Virginie Lariviere presented Prime Minister Brian Mulroney with a 1.3-million-signature petition. Lariviere was convinced media violence had a hand in her sister's death, and her petition demanded legislation to ban gratuitous violence on television (Vivian Maurin, 292 ... ...

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