The last surviving member of a Vancouver family is searching for accountability and systemic change after the Lapu-Lapu Day festival tragedy.

Alejandro Samper, whose mother, Glitza Maria, father, Daniel, and sister, Glitza Daniela, were among the 11 people killed in the vehicle-ramming attack on the Filipino street festival in April, plans to join a class-action lawsuit against the city, health authority, and the suspect.

“I’m still very broken. I’m still crying, grieving. But also with a very strong sense of purpose,” Samper told CityNews.

While his heart may never recover, Samper is grateful for his friends and community, who stood by his side over the darkest six months of his life.

Now his focus has turned to seeking answers to how the tragedy was allowed to occur in the first plac

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