Cpl. Nathan Cirillo. (Picture Canadian Forces)
Parliamentarian Rathika Sitsabaiesan honoured slain Canadian solider Cpl. Nathan Cirillo as his hearse drove past Toronto on route to be repatriated last Friday.
She joined residents of Scarborough to line the 401 overpass at McCowan road as the motorcade passed through the busiest stretch of highway in the world.
MP Rathika Sitsabaiesan with Scarborough residents the bridge overlooking Highway 401. (Pictures by Mahesh Abeyewardene)
“We are country of love and it is absolutely unfortunate that Cpl. Nathan Cirillo’s life was taken too quickly from us,” Sitsabaiesan told lankareporter.com.
“I am standing on the bridge at McCowan Road and Highway 401 with community members in Scarborough to make our final salute to Cpl. Cirillo as he passes by in the motorcade.”
MP Rathika Sitsabaiesan with Scarborough residents the bridge overlooking Highway 401.
Sitsabaiesan said she spoke to her colleagues who were shaken up by the attack in Ottawa. She says bullet holes reached the NDP caucus door.
Sitsabaiesan helps to a tie Canadian flag on a Toronto ambulance parked on the bridge overlooking Highway 401, referred to as the Highway of Heroes, a route used to repatriate Canadian soldiers killed in the Afghanistan campaign.
“There were bullet holes in our caucus room door, we’re very lucky there were multi-doors with high levels of padding,” she said.
