Ottawa: A Conservative MP is backtracking on her claim that Canada’s spy agency knew there was a bomb on an Air India plane that exploded in flight, killing 329 people.
In a late June speech at a Vancouver church, Tory MP Wai Young said the laws at the time prevented the Canadian Security Intelligence Service from telling the RCMP about the explosive device in 1985.
Young told the service at Harvest City Church that, as a result, the Mounties could not remove the bomb from Air India Flight 182.
She said the government’s recently enacted Bill C-51 remedied the problem by allowing greater information-sharing between agencies.
In a statement Tuesday night, Young said she “misspoke with regards to the investigation of the Air India bombing” in her speech at the service.
Young says she regrets the error.
A federal commission of inquiry into the Air India bombing did not conclude in its June 2010 report that CSIS knew there was a bomb on the plane.
14/07/15 Jim Bronskil/The Canadian Press/The Globe and Mail
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In a late June speech at a Vancouver church, Tory MP Wai Young said the laws at the time prevented the Canadian Security Intelligence Service from telling the RCMP about the explosive device in 1985.
Young told the service at Harvest City Church that, as a result, the Mounties could not remove the bomb from Air India Flight 182.
She said the government’s recently enacted Bill C-51 remedied the problem by allowing greater information-sharing between agencies.
In a statement Tuesday night, Young said she “misspoke with regards to the investigation of the Air India bombing” in her speech at the service.
Young says she regrets the error.
A federal commission of inquiry into the Air India bombing did not conclude in its June 2010 report that CSIS knew there was a bomb on the plane.
14/07/15 Jim Bronskil/The Canadian Press/The Globe and Mail
