Cheryl Gallant and House of Commons

Ottawa Valley: Cheryl Gallant, who represents the Ottawa Valley riding of made the fundraising pitch in a March 2 email to supporters with the all-caps subject line TERRORISTS IN OUR MIDST. Cheryl Gallant is shown asking a question in the House of Commons in 2003, according to Huffington Post Canada. The email is an assault on Liberal immigration policies, but it also includes a picture of Cirillo in military dress with the caption, "A Hero Forever In Our Hearts." The text links the fast-tracking of Canadian citizenship for refugees and migrants to the reversal of a bill that revoked citizenship for dual citizens convicted of terrorist acts. "Why do migrants need to be protected from losing newly granted Canadian citizenship if they are convicted of committing a terrorist act " the email asks. "Is the Liberal Party afraid of alienating tens of thousands of new votes with the threat of deportation if any are convicted of terrorist activity " The email is punctuated with photos of Cirillo killer and Parliament Hill attacker Michael Zehaf-Bibeau and Toronto 18 bomb plotter Zakaria Amara. Nathan Cirillo while he stood guard at the National War Memorial in Ottawa galvanized the country, but now a Conservative MP is using his death to peddle Easter hams in a bizarre fundraising campaign. Nathan Cirillo is shown standing guard at the National War Memorial. It doesn't assure the finances of any political party." Antler also criticized Gallant for linking Cirillo death to refugees and immigrants. "They're their own issues. At the bottom of the email a red "Order Now" button leads to an Easter fundraising campaign where donors are told they will be rewarded with a ham, though the website cautions the ham is only available to residents of Veteran 'incensed' "I was incensed and very disappointed, saddened just to see that low-class type of mentality to raise some money," said navy veteran D.W. Antler, who first raised this issue on his blog. "The Canadian Armed Forces protects Canada. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.