Air India Inquiry gets underway

I’ve been tasked with covering the Air India inquiry or, as it’s formally known, the Commission of Inquiry into the Investigation of the Bombing of Air India Flight 182. It may also come to be referred to as the Major Commission, after John Major (left), the retired Supreme Court justice who will oversee the inquiry.

The inquiry will make its headquarters in Ottawa at what is known as Old City Hall (right) on Sussex.

The first three weeks of the inquiry will be given to the families of those who died in what is still the largest mass murder in Canadian history. For the families,  this is a particularly important occasion because it will be the first time many of them will actually get a chance to be “on the record” about this event and how it changed their lives.