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In his first public words since Wednesday morning’s shootings, Prime Minister Stephen Harper called the attacks “despicable” and “cold-blooded murder.”

“In the days to come, we will learn more about the terrorist and any accomplices he may have had,” he said. “But these attacks are a grim reminder that Canada is not immune to the types of terrorist attacks we have seen elsewhere around the world.”

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He called the attacks on the military and on Parliament “by their very nature attacks on our country, on our values, on society, on us Canadians, a free and democratic people who embrace human dignity for all.

“We will not be intimidated. Canada will never be intimidated,” he said.

He promised the country will “redouble our efforts” to keep Canada safe and fight terrorists abroad who have “the hope of bringing their savagery to our shores. They will have no safe haven.”

Speaking after Harper, NDP leader Tom Mulcair said the attack was “carried out on the very ground where we come together to exchange ideas with the knowledge that whatever our differences, we will always resolve them peacefully.”