Parliament Centre Block Zehaf Bibeau and Canadian Security Intelligence Service

Phil Gurski: Nathan Cirillo, an honour guard at the National War Memorial, before rushing into Parliament Centre Block, according to Hamilton Spectator. Zehaf Bibeau was quickly gunned down. In France and Belgium there are tens of thousands of people who, while not terrorists, sympathize with the ideology espoused by radical elements like the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, said Phil Gurski, a former Canadian Security Intelligence Service analyst who specializes in counter-radicalization efforts. "We don't have that here — not to the best of our knowledge," Gurski said in an interview. "I think we have to acknowledge that there are some significant differences." Last year Michael Zehaf Bibeau shot Cpl. Two days earlier, Martin Couture-Rouleau had fatally rammed Warrant Officer Patrice Vincent with a car in St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Que. While Canada has been hit by jihadi-inspired lone-wolf attacks, there has been nothing like the co-ordinated assaults on multiple targets in Paris that claimed 129 lives and injured hundreds of others, said Jez Littlewood of the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University in Ottawa. "That not something we've seen Canadian terrorists actually being able to carry out." Canada is pursuing a significantly smaller proportion of counter-terrorism investigations than some European nations, and a relatively low number of Canadians — between 45 and 60 — have headed to Iraq and Syria as foreign fighters, experts say. After a chase, police shot and killed the knife-wielding assailant. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.