MPs are expected to get their first look at the video made by Parliament Hill gunman Michael Zehaf-Bibeau before his Oct. 22 attack at the National War Memorial, when RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson goes before the Commons public safety committee later this week.
An RCMP spokesman confirmed to CBC News that Paulson is scheduled to appear at a special session on Friday.
"At that time, committee members will be provided an update on the investigation arising from the events of Oct 22, 2014 in Ottawa," the spokesman said via email.
"The video made by Zehaf-Bibeau prior to his attacks at the War Memorial and Parliament Hill will also be examined."
Last month, the public safety committee extended an open-ended invitation to Paulson to "publicly display and discuss" the video.
Ongoing investigation
It wasn't clear, however, whether Friday's session will be open to the public, or whether committee members will be shown the complete, unedited video or a selection of clips chosen by the RCMP.
Jean-Christophe de le Rue, a spokesman for Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney, told La Presse Canadienne that the government's position is that the video should be released despite an ongoing investigation into the shooting.
Despite the RCMP's statement, a formal notice of a parliamentary committee meeting has yet to be issued for Friday.
Conservative Senator Daniel Lang, chairman of the Senate's national security and defence committee, said last week he was also writing to Paulson to ask for the video's release.
Liberal Senator Grant Mitchell told CBC Radio's Ottawa Morning host Robyn Bresnahan he thinks it's good news that the video may soon be made public.
"I'm quite confident that the commissioner would have gone through the security and intelligence evidence value … and we'd be getting it at a time that is appropriate," he said.
He told CBC News that he and Lang wrote to the RCMP to show their support for the request made by their House colleagues.
Shooter's state of mind
"We agreed that we would put our voice behind the voices of the [MPs] committee to say, could you please release this as soon as you can, legitimately, release it."
As for what he hopes to learn from the video, Mitchell noted that the Senate national security committee is currently studying the broader issue of radicalization, particularly homegrown.
"This is obviously an important case to be considered," he said.
He said the video could shed light on Zehaf-Bibeau's state of mind.
"One of the features of the testimony we're hearing is that often people are unbalanced who do this — perhaps that's obvious — but actually have mental illness difficulties, and find out what the relationship is to some form of radical ideology or ideas," he told CBC News.
He also wants to see the video ultimately released to the public.
"Yes, absolutely," he told Bresnahan.
"We need all the information we can get. Otherwise, we won't be able to find what causes these problems, and we won't be able to fund solutions that will protect Canadians, and that's what we want to do."
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