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Senators are set to follow the lead of MPs and push the RCMP to finally make public a video the Parliament Hill shooter reportedly made of himself before the Oct. 22, 2014 attack.

“Canadians have a right to either see it, or hear a very good reason why we shouldn’t see it,” Sen. Dan Lang, chairman of the Senate’s national security committee, said Thursday.

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The push from the red chamber comes as the federal government indicated it will spend an extra $4.6 million this fiscal year to shore up security on and off Parliament Hill in the wake of the attack on the National War Memorial and the Centre Block.

Government spending documents tabled Thursday show the House of Commons will spend an extra $3.5 million, the Senate an extra $900,000, and the Library of Parliament an extra $200,000 on unspecified “security enhancements.”

A joint Commons and Senate committee is also overseeing changes to security around Parliament Hill, and the Senate continues to debate handing over operational control of security to the RCMP, a decision the House made earlier this week.