The suspect, identified as Kai-Ji Adam Lo, 30, of Vancouver, was charged with eight counts of second-degree murder, according to the Vancouver Police Department.
No motive has been confirmed for the Saturday evening attack in the western city of Vancouver, though terrorism was ruled out by police.
Police chief Steve Rai said the 30-year-old suspect drove a black Audi SUV and had a “significant history” of interaction with police and mental health care professionals.
The celebration called the Lapu Lapu Festival commemorates a Filipino anti-colonial leader from the 16th century.
“Last night families lost a sister, a brother, a mother, a father, a son, or a daughter,“ he said. “Those families are living every family’s nightmare.”
Footage posted online and verified by AFP shows the vehicle with a damaged hood parked on a street littered with debris, meters from first aid crews tending to people lying on the ground.
“There was a lady with her eyes staring up, one of her legs was already broken. One person was holding her hand trying to comfort her,“ Selipe told the newspaper.
Festival security guard Jen Idaba-Castaneto told a local news site that she saw bodies everywhere.
Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre said in a tweet “I am shocked by the horrific news emerging from Vancouver’s Lapu Lapu Day Festival tonight.”
In the capital Ottawa, Julie Dunbar, a semi-retiree out for a morning run, recalled an attack in 2018 in Toronto in which a man in a van killed 11 people.
Saturday's event featured a parade, a film screening, dancing and a concert, with two members of the Black Eyed Peas featured on the lineup published by the organizers.
“This is the darkest day in our city’s history,“ Vancouver police said in a statement.
Canadians go to the polls Monday after an election race where candidates have wooed voters on issues including rising living costs and standing up to Trump.
Carney is favored to win after assuring voters he can stand up to Washington's barrage of sweeping tariffs and threats of annexation.
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