The trial for a couple accused of trying to bomb the B.C. legislature on Canada Day saw video Monday of the pair saying they're unsure of when Canada Day is.

Both John Nuttall and Amanda Korody struggled to remember the date they allegedly intended to plant pressure-cooker bombs in footage taken only four days before the unsuccessful attack.

“What day is Canada Day?” asked Nuttall, recorded on hidden camera video in a Delta motel room as he worked with wire and duct tape to assemble the bombs on June 27, 2013.

“I think it’s Monday,” replied Korody.

“Are you sure?” said Nuttall.

“No,” answered Korody.

“Is it on the first?” asked Nuttall.

“Yes,” said Korody.

The pair can then be seen pausing for several minutes, possibly to look up the date.

“It’s the first,” said Nuttall.

“I said I thought it was Monday,” answered Korody. “It’s Thursday now.”

Both Nuttall and Korody face terrorism charges relating to the alleged Victoria bomb plot. Prosecutors allege that they intended to set off two pressure cooker explosives amid the crowds on Canada Day, 15 minutes apart.

The pair were watched, often on hidden camera, by an undercover officer posing as a Muslim businessman sympathetic to their cause. He drove them around to pick up bomb parts and also put them in contact with another undercover officer who provided the pair with fake C4.

While Nuttall and Korody were able to plant the bombs, court has heard, the devices were disabled and ultimately didn’t go off. Both have pleaded not guilty.

Just after noon on June 27, the video shows Nuttall, Korody and the undercover officer arguing about how to handle motel staff that might want to clean the room as they are preparing the bomb materials, which include pressure cookers, clocks and wires.

“If those two come snooping around when I’m doing my work, I’ll have to kill them," said Nuttall. "I’m going to snap their necks."

“This is your room,” says the undercover officer. “Nobody is going to come inside. They’ll knock. And if you need new towels, just put the old towels outside.”

“If I think they suspect anything…” starts Nuttall.

“If you think like that they will suspect something,” says the officer. “Don’t think like that.”

The officer leaves, and Nuttall looks at Korody and says, “I’m going to snap their necks and put their bodies in closets. You know in that movie when the king looks [at his queen] and says, 'This is Sparta!' I’ll look to you and if you give me the signal, we pounce on them.”

The pair then argue about how they would actually kill the cleaning staff.

“We have this knife,” says Korody.

“It’s a butter knife. How could you kill someone with a butter knife? I guess you could jam it in the eyeballs,” Nuttall says.

“I have my rope,” says Korody.

The pair complain about the $71 cost of the wire, and spend hours tinkering, the video shows. Nuttall’s speech is quick and partially slurred. Korody speaks more slowly. Both were recovering heroin addicts on methadone at the time the recording was made, the court has heard.

Nuttall then says his relatively recent conversion to Islam is not why he is making the bomb, the video shows.

“Religion has nothing to do with why we’re doing this,” he says.

“It has something…” interrupts Korody.

“Something, but I wasn’t recruited by Al Qaeda. I was recruited by the terrorist acts my country has done overseas. My own country’s sins. My own country’s mischief in the end. Really in the end I was recruited by my own country,” Nuttall says.

“Pushed?” asks Korody.

“Pushed. Forced. By the lack of empathy to Muslims in Vancouver, B.C. in general. It’s disgusting to read the comments on Yahoo!”, he says. “They f---ing hate us. F---them.”

The court has heard that neither Nuttall or Korody were in contact with Al Qaeda, but gave themselves the title of “Al Qaeda Canada.” The terrorist group the pair is charged with being part of consisted of only Nuttall and Korody, according to documents.