Plotters hoped to 'change world'

Photo: Contributed - RCMP

A B.C. man said he thought his alleged plot to detonate pressure-cooker bombs in Victoria on Canada Day in 2013 would "change the world," even as he struggled to pick a target.

The trial for John Nuttall and his wife Amanda Korody has heard that the couple still hadn't chosen where they would place their homemade bombs, less than 24 hours before the attack was set to unfold.

In a video played in court, an undercover officer posing as an Arab businessman pleads with the pair in a Vancouver Island hotel room to pick a location.

The officer asks Nuttall what he hopes to accomplish and Nuttall responds that he's trying to change the world and incite anger against the Canadian government.

Nuttall also says he wants to create "shock and awe" by killing hundreds of people, comparing his attack to the bombing of Baghdad during the Iraq War.

Both Nuttall and Korody have pleaded not guilty to four terrorism-related charges.