<br/>The final report into the 1985 Air India Kanishka bombing recommended ex-gratia payment to the families of 329 victims, mostly of Indian origin. It also blamed the Canadian government for its failure to prevent the country's worst terrorist attack.<br/> <br/>Justice John Major, the head of the Kanishka bombing inquiry commission in a live press conference in Ottawa said that the Canadian authorities should have known that Air India Flight 182 was a terrorism target. The failure of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and Canada’s spy agency Canadian Security and Intelligence Services (CSIS) to prevent the tragedy is inexcusable. <br/> <br/>Justice Major in his 3,200 pages report said the government needs to take responsibility to avoid further failure and to prevent a return to a culture of complacency <br/> <br/>It called for an independent body to be created to recommend an appropriate ex gratia payment and to oversee its distribution, though it offered little relief to the families of those who were killed in the tragedy. <br/> <br/>Candian Prime Minister Stephen Harper assured the family members of the victims of the 1984 Air India Kanishka bombing that the government would respond "positively" to the recommendations made by an inquiry committee and said compensation would be offered to all.<br/> <br/>Harper, who met the families of the victims, mostly Indian-origin hours after the report was made public, told them the government would provide compensation to them. <br/> <br/>Air India Flight 182 on June 23, 1985, which was travelling from Canada to India, crashed into the Atlantic killing all 329 people on board.<br/>