Canada intelligence-sharing on suspects curbed by court ruling

OTTAWA/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Canada did not share some intelligence with the United States about two men who mounted fatal attacks last week because of a 2013 court ruling limiting the transfer of personal data, a Canadian official said on Saturday.

U.S. authorities therefore knew little about Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, who killed a soldier on Wednesday before attacking Parliament in the capital Ottawa. They also did not realise that Canada had withdrawn the passport of Martin Rouleau, who ran over and killed a soldier in Quebec on Monday.