Calls for armed security guards outside Jewish institutions met with controversy

Two Montreal city councillors are among eight elected officials calling for highly trained security guards be armed with guns to protect Jewish institutions. This comes after some buildings and schools were targetted in Antisemetic hate crimes. But the borough mayor of Côte-des-Neiges-Notre-Dame-de-Grâce is denouncing it, worried that this is an American-style solution to a local security problem. Global’s Tim Sargeant reports.

• Idea to hire armed security at Montreal Jewish institutions triggers controversy