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The terrorist attack against a Paris newspaper was an assault on democracy, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Thursday as he warned that jihadists are at war with anyone who values openness and tolerance.

Mr. Harper said new arrest powers aimed at thwarting terrorist threats will be in a bill tabled shortly after Parliament resumes in late January.

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“They have declared war on anybody who does not think and act exactly as they wish they would think and act,” Mr. Harper said of what he described as the “international jihadist movement,” including ISIS.

“They have declared war and are already executing it on a massive scale on a whole range of countries with which they are in contact, and they have declared war on any country, like ourselves, that values freedom, openness and tolerance. We may not like this and wish it would go away, but it is not going to go away.”

Speaking to reporters Thursday in the Vancouver suburb of Delta, Mr. Harper said the coming anti-terrorism bill is likely to contain “additional powers to make sure that our security agencies have the range of tools available to them to identify potential terror threats and to take arrests and other actions — detention and arrests and other actions — where necessary.”