To begin with, it was not at all my intention to minimize the Air India tragedy, quite the contrary. In my opinion light must be shed on this tragedy as well as on the operational shortcomings of our security system which, at the end of the day, allowed this tragedy to occur.
But the fact is that we are currently looking into situations in which Canadian citizens' rights were violated because of improper action on the part of the security services. Mr. O'Connor tackled this issue head on, in so far as it was possible to do so. Moreover, his report was made public two years ago. And yet, right when it was published, the government promised to quickly implement its recommendations. So under the circumstances, I don't see why the Air India inquiry would now call into question these promises.