May calls for full-blown public inquiry a decade after Hill shooting

It’s ‘a uniquely Canadian thing that something that significant would happen and there’d never be an inquiry,’ says Green Party Leader Elizabeth May, while Kevin Vickers told the Ottawa Citizen he's surprised there's never been a parliamentary review, and that witness statements and security footage should be released.

People try to save Cpl. Nathan Cirillo after he was shot and later died while on sentry duty at Ottawa's National War Memorial on Oct. 22, 2014. The gunman subsequently stormed Centre Block where he was shot and killed outside the Library of Parliament.The Hill Times photograph by Mark Burgess

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BY CHRISTOPHER GULY

October 28, 2024

Ten years after Michael Zehaf-Bibeau stormed Centre Block after fatally shooting Cpl. Nathan Cirillo at the National War Memorial, Green Party Leader Elizabeth May says there should “absolutely” be an official public inquiry to reveal “the massive security failure” o...

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