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3. His main responsibility is the security of Parliament...

Tue Oct 28, 2014, 01:06 AM

Oct 2014

"That’s his job – to safeguard the House, and oversee security on Parliament. During Question Period, he sits by the main doors, monitoring the public galleries in the balconies above with television screens on his desk. His office is just about six metres down the hall from the Parliamentary Library, near where the gunman was said to have been killed yesterday."

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/sergeant-at-arms-kevin-vickers-thrust-into-role-of-modern-day-hero/article21251215/

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A question from an American about events in Ottawa [View all] mndemsocialist Oct 2014 OP

Here is the CBC account.... Grey Oct 2014 #1

I was a little surprised, I thought it was purely a ceremonial post. Joe Shlabotnik Oct 2014 #2

His main responsibility is the security of Parliament... Spazito Oct 2014 #3