Wai Young Quickly Backtracks On Her Claims That CSIS Knew About Bomb On Air India Plane!
Conservative Wai Young’s theory of how Canada’s spy agency allowed the Air India tragedy to happen is nothing new as much evidence suggests that the suitcase containing the bomb should have never made it on to the Air India plane and so many Airport and security protocols were not followed and that Canadian police turned a blind eye to the whole bombing plot, including alleged Indian government agents working with Sikh militants, a kind of Key-Stone Kops approach to security that resulted in the deaths of 329 people aboard the Air India flight.
OTTAWA – Conservative MP Wai Young got herself into a lot of hot water this week by espousing the well known theory that Canada’s spy agency Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) allowed the Air India terrorist act to take place despite knowing that a bomb had been placed on the doomed flght.
This is nothing new as much evidence suggests that the suitcase containing the bomb should have never made it on to the Air India plane and so many Airport and security protocols were not followed and that Canadian police turned a blind eye to the whole bombing plot, including alleged Indian government agents working with Sikh militants, a kind of Key-Stone Kops approach to security that resulted in the deaths of 329 people aboard the Air India flight.
But a Canadian government MP stating this fact about how conflict between CSIS and the RCMP contributed to the mess that has become the Air India investigation with hundreds of millions of dollars spent and no real convictions has never happened.
Young’s pronouncements to a church crowd were shocking revelations and created quit a stir, forcing the Vancouver-South MP to backtrack on her claim that Canada’s spy agency knew there was a bomb on an Air India plane and did nothing about it.
In a late June speech at a Vancouver church, Tory MP Wai Young said the laws at the time prevented the Canadian Security Intelligence Service from telling the RCMP about the explosive device in 1985, reported Canadian Press.
Young told the service at Harvest City Church that, as a result, the Mounties could not remove the bomb from Air India Flight 182.
She said the government’s recently enacted Bill C-51 remedied the problem by allowing greater information-sharing between agencies.
After national headlines and a big fall out resulting from her comments, Young said she “misspoke with regards to the investigation of the Air India bombing” in her speech at the service.
CSIS had no immediate comment.
A federal commission of inquiry into the Air India bombing did not conclude in its June 2010 report that CSIS knew there was a bomb on the plane.
Rather, it said government agencies had significant pieces of information that, taken together, would have led a competent analyst to conclude that Flight 182 was at high risk of being bombed in June 1985.
But the inquiry overlooked so much evidence that suggested that it was the fight for power and money between CSIS and RCMP that resulted in the Air India tragedy being carried out by Sikh militants and others.
But Young presented a different version of events to churchgoers.
“CSIS knew, or heard, that there was a bomb on board this plane,” Young said, adding “strict laws” prevented agencies from sharing information at the time.
“I don’t know if you guys know that. Because they couldn’t share that information with the RCMP, the RCMP could not act to take that bomb off that plane,” Young said.
In her June 30 speech, first reported by the leftist Press Progress blog, Young also likened Bill C-51 and other criminal justice legislation to the way Jesus “served and acted to always do the right thing, not the most popular thing.”
First elected in 2011, Young then added that, “If bill C-51 had been in place 30 years ago, Air India would never have happened. Those some 400 lives would have been saved.”
Instead, Young alleged that CSIS let the bombing happen because, she said, the law at the time did not allow the spy agency to tell the RCMP what it knew.
“CSIS knew or heard that there was a bomb on board this plane,” she said. “But because of the strict laws that government departments have, they cannot share information between departments.… Because they couldn’t share that information with the RCMP, the RCMP could not act to take that bomb off that plane. Today, with C-51, they will be able to share that information.”
