Sri Lanka had detained a Canadian MP at the Colombo airport for his alleged pro-LTTE stand and he is likely to be deported, officials said on Wednesday.
Bob Rae, an MP of the opposition Liberal Party of Canada, who came here on a visit visa, was detained at the Bandaranaike airport on his arrival last night.
Bob Rae, an MP of the opposition Liberal Party of Canada, who came here on a visit visa, was detained at the Bandaranaike airport on his arrival last night."We are likely to make necessary arrangements to send him back," the official said.
Rae, while speaking in the Canadian parliament recently, had hit out at Sri Lanka for the alleged killing of 20,000 Tamil civilians, a media report said.
"On June 2, 2009 Bob Rae spoke in parliament calling for an investigation into Sri Lanka, and referred to 20,000 dead/missing and was followed on June 3, 2009 by Jim Karygianis speaking on behalf of his LTTE Tamil constituents calling for an emergency debate on Sri Lanka," a newspaper website said.
"They are from the greater Toronto area where the bulk of the Tamil voters sympathetic to the LTTE live and from where tens of thousands of Tamils waving the LTTE flag and carrying pictures of Prabhakaran have been demonstrating both in Ottawa and Toronto," the report said.
The paper said that being the foreign affairs critic in parliament, Rae would use information from this visit to harass the Canadian government which will affect relationship between the two countries.
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