Sri Lankan authorities Tuesday night detained Canadian MP Bob Rae at the Katunayake International Airport over his alleged support to the LTTE, authoritative sources told The Island. They said that though a section of officials wanted to engage the visiting politician, others had asserted that there was absolutely no point in having a dialogue with the LTTE supporter.

The MP who had arrived from Chennai would be sent back there, they said.
Well informed sources said that Sri Lanka’s High Commission in Canada had issued him with a visa though the government later decided to revoke the decision and accordingly cancelled the visa. But by that time, the Canadian MP had already left his country.