After the release of the long-awaited report from the Air India commission, relatives of those lost on Air India Flight 182 say they hope that some desperately needed changes will be made to aviation security in Canada.

Renee Saklikar was just a little girl when her aunt and uncle were blown out of the sky on the doomed 1985 flight.

"They were just on holidays. It was June," Saklikar said.

On Thursday, she visited the Air India memorial in Vancouver's Stanley Park to reflect on the inquiry commission's report, which said that a series of errors by the government, RCMP and CSIS all contributed to a failure in security leading up to the bombing.

"It's frightening -- I think that's the only word -- about the depth of things that weren't done," Saklikar said.

But just as important as learning what went wrong, she said, is asking what will be done to prevent a similar act of terror in the future.

"There has to be a systemic approach to aviation security from the back end, not just what the public sees. This is right in the report. Well, where are we with that? Is it safe to fly in Canada? Are we going to address these issues?" Saklikar asked.

According to some experts, things haven't changed as much as we might think. The government recently announced beefed-up security screening for both passengers and cargo, but in many cases, gaps in security still exist.

Those gaps are especially obvious when it comes to communications between the RCMP and CSIS, according to Salim Jiwa, author of two books on the Air India bombing.

"There are different mandates for both organizations. Unless they create a super agency that deals with terrorism only, we could be in a similar situation in the future," Jiwas told CTV News.

But Saklikar says she's holding out hope that change is in the works.

"The foremost hope is that it will shake up a culture of complacency…and that the report not gather dust -- that the government looks at it and takes action," she said.

That is the only way, Saklikar says, to truly honour the dead and ensure nothing like this ever happens again.

With a report from CTV British Columbia's Stephen Smart