Conservative accused of campaigning with man acquitted in Air India case

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As it happens Malik lost in the Supreme Court Friday -- see blog post from yesterday.

The truth, of course, is that during an election everyone meets hundreds, nay thousands, of people and it's very hard to screen out all the bad guys.

Now, canvassing with a charity -- that's a more obvious problem but that's the charity's problem more than the candidate's.

Still, someone should have noticed Ripudaman Singh Malik was a founder of the school.

April 22, 2011
Petti Fong      
Western Canada Bureau     
 
VANCOUVER—Liberal Ujjal Dosanjh has filed a complaint with Elections Canada after one of the men acquitted in the Air India bombings endorsed his Conservative rival.

Dosanjh said his campaign learned Friday about the April 6 meeting at B.C. Khalsa School in which teachers and parents were urged to support Conservative Wai Young.

Dosanjh, the incumbent in Vancouver South, said Young was at the meeting along with Ripudaman Singh Malik, one of the Khalsa School founders.

Malik and another man, Ajaib Singh Bagri, were found not guilty in 2005 in the 1985 Air India bombing in which 331 people were killed in two explosions.