Home 
OTTAWA, Canada?Libya has stopped issuing visas to Canadian citizens amid rising tensions between the two governments, local media reported Sunday.
CBC television and the online journal Cyberpresse reported that the decision follows a cancellation by Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi in late September of a stopover in Canada.
Kadhafi was supposed to spend a short layover in Canada while heading back to Libya from summits in the United States and Venezuela.
But Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper had instructed Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon to meet with the controversial leader to express Canada's displeasure over the celebrations that welcomed home Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, the convicted Lockerbie bomber.
Megrahi was released from a Scottish prison on compassionate grounds because he has terminal cancer, but the joyful celebrations that welcomed him home were sharply criticized by countries who lost citizens in the 1988 attack.
Cannon was to tell Kadhafi that the welcome was "an insult to all the victims, including Canadians."
