Air India inquiry to probe RCMP-CSIS rivalry, Parmar confession

Ottawa: Twenty-two years after the Air India bombing, a public inquiry into the worst terrorist act in Canadian history is ready to take one more stab at finding the answers in a final round of hearings between now and the end of the year.
But even Mark Freiman, the chief counsel for the inquiry headed by retired Supreme Court justice John Major, isn't sure how things will turn out.
The fall hearings will begin by delving into the rocky relations between the RCMP and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service in the months following the 1985 downing of Air India Flight 182.
First up Monday will be two retired Mounties, Mike Roth and Lyman Henschel, who will recount the already well-publicized erasure by CSIS of hundreds of hours of wiretap tapes that the RCMP had hoped to comb though for cures in its criminal investigation.
James Jardine, a British Columbia provincial court judge and former Crown attorney, will be on hand later in the week to describe the impact of the erasures on subsequent court proceedings. After that, CSIS representatives - including retired counter-terrorism chief Jake Warren - will tell their side of the story.
17/09/07 The Canadian Press, Canada

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