Is Jean Gaetan Gingras a sinner or a saint?

As Jean Gaetan Gingras was being sentenced to 10 years for conspiring to traffic cocaine last week, the 69-year-old Montrealer made cryptic comments in B.C. Supreme Court.
"In the past, my actions have proven that I am not in agreement with people who are criminals and commit crimes," Gingras said through a French interpreter. "I have even put my life, my own life, into danger to save others."
While it was never revealed during his recent trial, Gingras was referring to his pivotal role in heading off a second Air India terrorist bombing in 1986, just a year after Flight 182 was blown from the sky over the North Atlantic in Canada's worst mass murder.
Details of Gingras's interaction with radicals in the Montreal faction of the Babbar Khalsa terrorist group are laid out in secret RCMP documents filed during pre-trial motions in the cocaine case and obtained by The Vancouver Sun.
They describe how 28 years ago, Gingras had become the go-to guy for the Babbar Khal-sa's Montreal wing. When a BK member wanted a gun in December 1985, he went to Gingras. When the BK man wanted to bomb the Surrey newspaper office of Tara Singh Hayer in January 1986, Gingras made the arrangements.
But when the same man approached Gingras a few months later to orchestrate a deadly airline bombing out of New York, Gingras was so concerned about the potential loss of life that he contacted the Sûreté du Québec about the plot.
Then Gingras turned on his contacts, and went on to play a key role in the resulting under-cover RCMP operation, code-named Project Scope, with the assistance of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation.
In May 1986, Gingras arranged meetings in Montreal between FBI agent Frank Miele, posing as a Vietnam veteran with explosives expertise, and two Montreal men later charged in the terrorism conspiracy, Santokh Singh Khela and Kashmir Singh Dhillon.
11/08/12 Kim Bolan/Vancouver Sun

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