Foreign Affairs Minister Pierre Pettigrew apologized Wednesday for how Canada's spy agency sullied the personal and professional life of a consular appointee. The apology comes after a report obtained by The Globe and Mail and other news agencies revealed that Bhupinder Singh Liddar was denied a consular appointment to India because of a hasty, slipshod assessment by a rookie CSIS investigator. In the report by Paule Gauthier, the former chairwoman of the Security Intelligence Review Committee, a CSIS investigator misinterpreted work Liddar did in the Middle East and Ottawa as long as 30 years ago.

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