NEW YORK, October 24 (RIA Novosti) — Canadian conservatives are already using a gun attack on the nation's parliament to introduce harsh anti-terror laws, analyst and author Beau Grosscup told RIA Novosti.
"Canadian right-wingers and the Canadian National Security State, which has strong ties to the US, now have the upper hand in the central democratic debate over balancing civil liberties and public safety," Grosscup said Thursday.
"They want to swing the pendulum further toward the "security fix" at the expense of individual rights in both Canada and, given US-Canada geo-political ties, even further in the US. Meanwhile, further evidence that there is no security fix to terrorism is abundant for all who want to see," Grosscup, the author of The Newest Explosions of Terrorism and Strategic Terror, stated.
On Wednesday morning, a gunman Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, 32, shot dead a soldier guarding the National War Memorial in Ottawa and then proceeded to Parliament Hill's Center Block where he was killed in a shootout with a policeman.
On October 23, Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper has stated that the attacks on the soldiers in Quebec and the shooting in Ottawa showed that Canada lacked immunity from terror attacks. Harper has vowed to strengthen the nation's anti-terrorism laws.
