Perhaps I could here and now say something about Air India. This inquiry was 20 years too late. Why was it too late and what were the obstructions that were put in place at the time?
We now know from Ron Atkey, who was chair of SIRC, that he was persuaded not to conduct an inquiry, or his committee would not do an inquiry. The parliamentary committee that I served was talked out of it as well, so there is the possibility of obstruction in this process.
If you look at the Americans and the way they looked at a terrorist attack, or Pan Am, a few years later, they conducted an inquiry, albeit it had to do with policy. It wasn't to do with the criminal investigation. In fact, it steered well clear of that. It examined the policy issues involved and made recommendations on the type of security that should be put in place. We could have done that a long time before we got around to it.