“No support of any kind. There was no support. We were supporting ourselves, among ourselves… At first, [they were not] considering them Canadian citizens because most of the people on board were Indian descendants. They [the Canadian government] felt like… it’s not their business, not their… that was somebody else’s war, it happened on somebody else’s ground.”

“They didn’t take it seriously enough. They didn’t, you know, whether… whether you treated it as a terrorist attack on Canadians or not, you still should have supported the families. That would be the right thing to do. Whether it was a terrorist attack or not… white, brown, black, whatever… that would have been the right thing to do. You are a human being that should have been the first thing that they thought of.”

“The Canadian government, I think, had a very ignorant response. It was essentially a nonresponse. I mean… our sense was that these guys thought… here are some brown people killing other brown people or hurting other brown people… it’s not a problem that is ours. So much so that, you know, Brian Mulroney… calls Rajiv Gandhi and condoles for the death of 300 Canadians.”