Attorney general seeks standing at Air India probe

Vancouver: Canada's attorney general wants standing at the Air India inquiry to protect disclosure of information that "would be injurious to international relations, national defence or national security," state documents filed at the commission."
The attorney general of Canada has a substantial and direct interest in all aspects of the inquiry and should be granted full standing, through counsel, to give evidence, examine or cross-examine witnesses and make submissions," said lead counsel Barney Brucker in the opening legal submission before retired Supreme Court of Canada Justice John Major.
The commission is looking into the criminal investigation and subsequent failed prosecution of the 1985 bombing of an Air India jetliner in which 329 people died, including 220 Canadians.
Brucker says the inquiry, expected to be completed next spring, will focus on several government agencies and departments, including the RCMP, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and Transport Canada, and will require access to extensive documents within each agency.
19/07/06 CanWest News Service; Vancouver Sun/Canada.com

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