and in victoria, british columbia we are joined by harsha walia, a social justice activist, founder ofno one is illegal, and author of the book, "undoing border imperialism." let's go first to ottawa to ihsaan gardee. can you talk about the attack and the response to it? >> thank you for having me on the show. the attack came as a shock to everyone, including the rcmp are, national police service here in canada. as the events unfolded, we started getting calls of the office, text messages and so forth, like everybody else, watching with a great deal of concern and to their credit, for the most part, media, as well as most politicians, were very restrained and balanced in a commentary. as information came out, there's very little that was known in the early hours of the attacks, including the one at the war memorial and the attack on parliament hill. about who the shooter was, the background, and so forth. the hours went by, more information slowly started to trickle out. a little bit more about the background of the perpetrator. it was something that was very scary. as i said, came as