Today marks a grim anniversary for Canada, but a new poll out of the Angus Reid Institute shows it's one most Canadians aren't even aware of.
The flight from Montreal to London exploded off the Irish coast, making the bombing the deadliest terrorist incident in Canada's history.
"It's both surprising and not surprising. On the one hand, the Air India bombings in recent years have been reframed or rebranded as Canada's worst encounter with terrorism," said Angela Failler, Canada Research Chair in culture and public memory, and co-editor of the book"So from that perspective, it's surprising that most or many Canadians don't recognize the Air India bombings or have a very vague understanding of the events.
In fact, then-prime minister Brian Mulroney famously called Indian president Rajiv Gandhi to express his condolences for India's loss."The suspects and the majority of those killed in the bombings were South Asian Canadians, and there was a disconnect in terms of the national public memory of recognizing that these were Canadians," Failler said.
"And [they've] since pointed out, over and over and over again, that the event just hasn't infiltrated Canadian public memory or public mourning in the way that we would expect an event of that scale, and the massive loss that it represents, to have registered."
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