The head of the Air India inquiry took the airline to task Monday for trying to keep information about its internal operations from public view.
John Major said Air India may be a state-owned airline, but that doesn't give it any special status to claim exemption from public disclosure on grounds of national security or international relations.
The former Supreme Court justice wants lawyers for the airline and the Canadian government to go back and review documents to be tabled at the inquiry with a view to releasing more material.
Major also criticized Air India's lawyer, Soma Ray-Ellis, for a media interview in which she claimed the airline was being scapegoated at the inquiry.
Major said Ray-Ellis is free to hold that view, but she should make her arguments at the hearings, not to journalists.
The inquiry is examining the 1985 bombing of Air India Flight 182 which claimed 329 victims, most of them Canadian.
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