The mother of the man accused of killing a soldier at Ottawa’s war memorial then storming Parliament before being shot dead says she is crying for the victims of the shooting, not her son.

Two terror-related attacks on Canadian soldiers in three days have raised fears that the country has become a target for sending troops to Iraq.

A young convert to Islam who killed a Canadian soldier in a hit-and-run had been on the radar of federal investigators, who feared he had jihadist ambitions and seized his passport when he tried to travel to Turkey, authorities said Tuesday.

Canada’s new transport minister rolled into Lac-Megantic on Wednesday but had little to offer in the way of specifics to a community where shock appears to be shifting to anger 11 days after the train derailment.