Luka Rocco Magnotta, 29, is thought to have flown from Montreal to Paris last weekend, say French police officials.
The suspect's alleged victim was Jun Lin, a 33-year-old Chinese student, Montreal police told the BBC.
A hand and a foot were posted to political parties in Ottawa on Tuesday and a headless torso was found behind Mr Magnotta's Montreal flat.
Although results have not yet emerged from forensic tests on the remains, police say they are all but certain the body parts were Jun Lin's.
Interpol issued a Red Notice wanted-persons alert on Thursday for Mr Magnotta.
Canadian police said they suspected he may have left the country based on evidence found during a search of his flat, and a blog post he wrote about how to disappear.
A senior French police official told the Associated Press news agency he was certain that Mr Magnotta was currently in France.
But another French police source told AFP news agency: "French police have no certainty about his presence or not in France."
Jun Lin, from the city of Wuhan, in China's Hubei province, was a student at Montreal's Concordia University. He was reported missing the day before his remains were discovered.
On Tuesday a foot was posted to the Conservative Party's offices, and police intercepted a second parcel, containing a hand, addressed to the Liberal Party's offices.
One of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's political advisers opened the bloodstained box containing the foot.
A video posted online that appears to show a man using an ice pick to kill another man was believed to show Jun Lin's murder, investigators say.
The suspect, also known as Eric Clinton Newman and Vladimir Romanov, had reportedly worked as a bisexual porn actor and model.
Media reports have linked Mr Magnotta to a video posted online in 2010 that showed two kittens being placed in a plastic bag and suffocated, and another of a kitten being fed to a snake.
Police described him as a white male, about 5ft 8in (1.73m) tall with blue eyes and black hair.
Source: BBC News
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