For the second day the B.C. legislature will closed to the public as staff reviews safety protocols and mulls whether to ramp up security.
In the meantime, guards are posted at all entrances.
Questions are being raised about how secure our provincial legislature buildings are following the deadly shooting of a Canadian reservist in Ottawa.
NDP Leader John Horgan says security measures in B.C. must be ramped up.
"What happened in Ottawa could happen here if we don't address it with increasing security one way or another," he said.
CTV reporter Lisa Rossington said some people at the B.C. legislature are suggesting the guards should carry firearms and that all public entrances should have metal detectors.
Premier Christy Clark revealed she received a security tip in the days leading up to the Ottawa shooting, but said she never talks about the legislature’s security because it doesn’t make the buildings safer.
A clerk told CTV News that some members were warned this week about heightened security concerns in the nation’s capital.
And B.C.’s Minister of Justice a possible security threat she was made aware of last week activated a response by the B.C. Mounties.
“They have now activated the various operations centres so that they are in control of the information and paying very close attention to our security in British Columbia,” Attorney General Susan Anton told reporters Wednesday afternoon.
CTV News has learned that there is an airport-style x-ray machine at the legislature but security staff are waiting for the go-ahead to install it.
With a report from CTV Vancouver’s Lisa Rossington
