Canada begins talks for compensation to Kanishka families

Toronto: Canada has begun talking to the families of the victims of the Kanishka bombing about financial compensation as it tries to bring closure to the 25-year-old bombing case.
Canadian Public Safety Minister Vic Toews and Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney sent a letter last week to families whose loved ones died in Canada's worst terrorist attack, the 1985 bombing of Air India Flight 182 in which 329 people were killed.
The letter discusses the possibility the families would receive an "ex-gratia payment," which was one of the proposals made in June by the commissioner of the Air India Inquiry, Justice John Major, according to National Post.
Three previous such payments are cited in the ministers' three-page letter: the USD 21,000 paid to families of Japanese internment during the Second World War; USD 24,000 to victims of chemical weapons testing; and USD 20,000 paid over the Chinese head tax.
The ministers' letter says ex-gratia payments are "made in the public interest where there is no obligation or legal liability to do so."
25/11/10 PTI/Economic Times

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