Canadian shooting an example of Australian security agencies' 'worst nightmare'

By Tom Allard
Updated October 24 2014 - 2:08am, first published 12:15am

The rampage of a gunman through Canada's Parliament on Thursday, just two days after a hit-and-run that killed a soldier in Quebec, has presented Australian security agencies with chilling real-life examples of their "worst nightmare" – do-it-yourself jihadism.