Give security adviser more power: Air India report

Ottawa: The head of the Air India inquiry is expected to recommend that Canada’s national security adviser be given extensive new powers to resolve disputes between the Mounties and Canada’s spy agency.
Among the report’s conclusions is that national security continues to be badly handled by the RCMP and Canadian Security Intelligence Service.
Former Supreme Court justice John Major and his team spent four years going through tens of thousands of documents and hearing more than 200 witnesses before completing the report into the 1985 bombing.
The report also concludes that there are still holes in aviation security, an over-reliance on technology, not enough intelligence and too many ground crew who never get searched, CBC News reported Wednesday.
Major’s recommendation means the director of CSIS and the RCMP commissioner would report to the national security adviser — currently Marie-Lucie Morin — only in cases where the adviser needs to resolve national security issues.
Air transport experts told of security lapses by Air India, Canadian airport authorities and regulators. Financial analysts deplored a lack of co-ordination that still hasn’t been fully remedied in tracking of money raised by terrorist front groups.
16/06/10 The Canadian Press/The Star

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