I am shocked and dismayed to hear that the Air India flight could have been saved and was not because of: (1) argument between Transport Canada and the RCMP about which agency would pay the cost of beefed-up security and (2) credible warnings not taken seriously enough by any of the agents involved, CSIS, Transport Canada, the RCMP and Air Canada--had they been, any one of those entities should have been willing to pay the cost of increased security. All of the survivors of that mass murder should be filthy rich now through successfully suing and collecting money from those agencies which failed in their duties. When these agencies fail so badly that the result is one of the worst mass murders, if not the worst, in recent history, there must be consequences or such travesties will continue. People should not have to pay with their lives so that the employees and managers of all these agencies can learn how to do their jobs properly. And the truth should not be withheld for 20 or more years so they can all retire with good pensions. As taxpayers, I wonder if Canadians would prefer to pay money to the survivors or to pay the pensions of the people who were charged with with the protection of but failed to protect the Canadians on that doomed flight. I would like to ask the airline if, in retrospect, it is clear that it would have been less expensive to keep that flight on the ground long enough to properly inspect the luggage.
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