Does Dion Oppose the Air India Investigation?
February 15, 2007 · By Aaron Unruh
Dion’s position on renewing the government’s anti-terror legislation has already cost him support within his own party. But that may be just the beginning:
A key investigative tool being used to advance the 1985 Air India bombing probe will be lost Friday if provisions of the Anti-Terrorism Act expire as expected, B.C. Solicitor General John Les said Wednesday.
The RCMP’s Air India task force has been preparing for years to hold special investigative hearings allowed under the act, but would have to scrap its unless the law is extended.
Civil libertarians will love it. But what effects will this new stand of Dion’s have on Liberal popularity in, say, the Sikh community?
security and stability, all in an attempt to win over voters from the NDP. That’s pretty much what I have been saying here for days: you don’t play silly and childish political games with this country’s national security. Then, as The Politic observes, Dion is not only going soft on terrorism but seems determined to sabotage the Air-India investigation as well. What’s wrong with Dion? Is he reading from somebody else’s script, as Rex Murphy suggested on CBC the other day, instead of relying on his
that the Air India inquiry might lose one means of gathering evidence if the opposition parties vote not to extend legislation allowing for investigative hearings: Oh, the betrayal! Oh, the sabotage! Oh, the foolishness! The opposition must oppose the inquiry altogether!Collective Blogging Tories on the news that the Air India inquiry might shut down entirely due to the government’s refusal to provide relevant evidence: (crickets chirping)Update: CC notes
security and stability, all in an attempt to win over voters from the NDP. That’s pretty much what I have been saying here for days: you don’t play silly and childish political games with this country’s national security. Then, as The Politic observes, Dion is not only going soft on terrorism but seems determined to sabotage the Air-India investigation as well. What’s wrong with Dion? Is he reading from somebody else’s script, as Rex Murphy suggested on CBC the other day, instead of relying on
that the Air India inquiry might lose one means of gathering evidence if the opposition parties vote not to extend legislation allowing for investigative hearings: Oh, the betrayal! Oh, the sabotage! Oh, the foolishness! The opposition must oppose the inquiry altogether!Collective Blogging Tories on the news that the Air India inquiry might shut down entirely due to the government’s refusal to provide relevant evidence: (crickets chirping)Update: CC notes
possibility that the Air India inquiry might lose one means of gathering evidence if the opposition parties vote not to extend legislation allowing for investigative hearings:”Oh, the betrayal! Oh, the sabotage! Oh, the foolishness! The opposition must oppose the inquiry altogether!”Collective Blogging Tories on the news that the Air India inquiry might shut down entirely due to the government’s refusal to provide relevant evidence:”(crickets chirping)”(Edit: formatting.)