Dublin, June 23 -- On the 40th anniversary of the Kanishka bombing, Bob Rae, Canada's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, reflected on the painful legacy of the terror attack that killed 329 people aboard Air India Flight 182.

Speaking from Cork, Ireland, where the plane's wreckage was recovered after being blown up mid-air on June 23, 1985, by the Canada-based Khalistani terrorist group Babbar Khalsa, Rae urged Canadians to acknowledge the truth behind the incident.

"...Canadians need to be aware and know that what happened happened because people living in our country planned and plotted the placing of a bomb and the explosion of that bomb," Rae said.

"As a Canadian, I feel so strongly that this act of terror must be etch...