Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper vowed Thursday that Canada would not be cowed by terrorism, promising that the country would never submit to intimidation.
“When faced with attacks on the country we all love … I know we will always stand together,” Harper said during an address delivered before the House of Commons on Thursday.
“Canadians will not be intimidated,” he added.
Harper’s speech comes one day after a masked gunman, a Canadian-born convert to Islam named Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, shot and killed a Canadian army reservist Cpl. Nathan Cirillo at a nearby war memorial.
Zehaf-Bibeau later stormed the Parliament, but was stopped and shot dead by former police officer Kevin Vickers, the ceremonial sergeant-at-arms of the House of Commons.
Vickers, visibly moved, was honored Thursday by Harper and the rest of Parliament.
