PM Stephen Harper to Air India families: 'We are sorry'

Ottawa: Prime Minister Stephen Harper will mark the 25th anniversary of the Air India bombing by saying "we are sorry" to families of the victims.
"Some wounds are too deep to be healed even by the remedy of time," Harper will say on Wednesday in Toronto in a speech he wrote himself. "We are sorry."
An excerpt from the speech was obtained by CBC News.
Harper will say the destruction of Air India Flight 182 "was, and remains, the single worst act of terrorism in Canadian history."
He will describe terrorism as "an enemy with a thousand faces, and a hatred that festers in the darkest spots of the human mind."
"This was evil, perpetrated by cowards. Despicable, senseless and vicious," Harper will say.
The prime minister will discuss compensation, but will not mention an amount.
Harper's apology follows a scathing report released last week by former Supreme Court justice John C. Major. He blamed a "cascading series of errors" by government, the RCMP and the country's spy agency for failing to prevent the disaster.
Harper called the report a "damning indictment of many things that occurred before and after the tragedy" which the government is "determined to avoid in the future."
The prime minister said the government takes Major's report "very seriously" and will "respond positively" to his recommendations for an apology and compensation for families.
22/06/10 CBC News

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