Ottawa: The judge who led an exhaustive inquiry into the 1985 Air India bombing is puzzled and disappointed the federal government has shunted aside his key recommendations.
Former Supreme Court Justice John Major says he sees little substance in the recent federal response to his five-volume report on the terrorist attack that killed 329 people, most of them Canadians.
The Conservative government's plan, touted as a road map, was panned by opposition MPs as vague and non-committal upon its release last December.
Now, Major is striking the same discouraged chord.
"These commissions cost money. This one cost a fair bit of money. And the public are entitled to know whether they're rejecting the report, what they're going to do about it," he said.
"To say it's a road map and leave us in the dark ... I don't think that's very satisfactory."
The Air India inquiry catalogued a litany of federal failures before and after the 1985 disaster. In the long-awaited report, Major called last June for a beefed-up national security adviser to settle disagreements between the RCMP and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service.
Under the retired judge's blueprint, the adviser would become a defacto intelligence czar, served by a deputy and a staff of representatives from frontline security agencies, including the RCMP, CSIS, the Canada Border Services Agency, and Foreign Affairs.
03/03/11 Jim Bronskill/The Canadian Press/Winnipeg Free Press
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