2 deadly attacks in 3 days against members of the military stunned Canadians and raised fears their country was being targeted for reprisals for joining the United State-led air campaign against an extremist Islamic group in Syria and Iraq .
“We will not be intimidated. Canada will never be intimidated,” PM Stephen Harper vowed in a nationally televised address hours after a masked gunman killed a soldier standing guard at Ottawa’s war memorial shortly before 10 AM on Wednesday. The suspect then stormed Parliament in a dramatic attack that was stopped cold when he was shot to death by the ceremonial sergeant-at-arms.
