Liberals demand apology from PM over Air India

Prime Minister Stephen Harper ignored demands that he owed a Liberal MP an apology on Thursday, one day after suggesting the Grits are opposed to anti-terror measures in order to protect one of their parliamentarian's relatives.
Liberal MP Navdeep Bains demanded an apology from the prime minister during question period.
"Yesterday, the prime minister in the House of Commons attacked my integrity and the integrity of my family. Now that he's had some time to think, will the prime minister simply retract his remarks?" Bains asked.
An unrepentant Harper sidestepped the question, instead saying he recognized the Air India bombing was an important matter.
Bains rose in the House once again to repeat his request that the prime minister retract his comments. Harper effectively challenged him to point to any error in the newspaper report.
The political firestorm erupted one day earlier when Harper attempted to read from a newspaper report saying that Mississauga-Brampton South MP Navdeep Bains' father-in-law is on a list of potential witnesses that the RCMP wants to compel to testify about the 1985 bombing.
Harper had been responding to unrelated criticism about the way his government chooses judges.
22/02/07 CTV.ca, Canada

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