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‘Something you don’t expect ... in Canada’ MP Ed Fast was in Parliament when shots rang out Tyler OLSEN Abbotsford News
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Gunfire rang out on Parliament Hill Wednesday morning just outside a room where Conservative MPs, including Abbotsford’s Ed Fast, were holding a caucus meeting. The attack began with the shooting of a Canadian soldier stationed at the nearby National War Memorial just before 10 a.m. Eastern Time. The soldier, Nathan Cirillo, later died from his wounds. Shortly after, gunfire erupted in Parliament Hill’s Centre Block building. Dozens of gunshots rang out in a large hallway adjacent to the Reading Room, where Prime Minister Stephen Harper was speaking to Conservative MPs, including Fast. Fast and his fellow members of Parliament were uninjured in the incident, which ended when the gunman, later identified as Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, was shot and killed by Parliament’s sergeant-at-arms, Kevin Vickers. ZehafBibeau had a criminal record that included a conviction for uttering threats in Vancouver in 2011. Even after the suspect was shot, members of Parliament remained locked down in their caucus room for hours as police officers cleared the building to ensure another possible shooter was not at large. A photo from Conservative MP Nina Grewal posted to Twitter showed chairs and other furniture piled several feet high blocking the doors to the room. Fast was still in lockdown when he spoke to The News. “It’s something that you don’t expect to happen in Canada,” he said. Continued on A7
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Members of Parliament barricade the doors after gunfire erupted in the House of Commons Wednesday.
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