A new report by the UN Committee Against Torture is blasting the Canadian government for its refusal to take seriously their complicity in the extraordinary renditions of Canadian citizens to third party countries for torture.
The report in particular urged Canada to resolve the outstanding issues surrounding the Iacobucci Inquiry. In this affair, three Canadian citizens were sent abroad to Egypt and Syria and tortured. Canadian officials falsely told the Egyptian and Syrian governments that the captives were “terrorist threats,” which the inquiry showed led to their torture.
Though Canada eventually apologized to Maher Arar, the first Canadian shipped abroad for torture, and paid him compensation, they have refused to do so with any of the Iacobucci three. The report expressed concern this showed a level of ambivalence about the fate of their wrongly accused citizens.
The committee also pressed Canada to hurry up with their resolution of the detention of Omar Khadr, a Toronto-born former child soldier who has been held in US military custody since he was 16. Khadr, now 25, was eventually forced to sign a plea deal which was supposed to see him transferred to a Canadian prison (and presumably released given the years of abuse he has suffered), but the Canadian government has never followed through on the matter.
The Canadian government does not treat it's brown citizens as it would it's white citizens. This has been shown time and time again.
or black or yellow and it was the Canadian PM, when asked how many jews they would take after WW2 the answer was "none is too many." We have absolutely no business wagging our finger at any other country for human rights abuses.
Torture is evil, to enrich yourself upon the misery of another, a crime in any fair and just society.
Torture is normally done to my slow and careful thinking laboring class, not so much to get information out of us, but to instill fearful submission to authority into us.
The PCs whenever they are in power in Canada is afraid of america`s shadow and asslick the US all the way the present bunch of bufoons are the worst to date and will put its citizens in harms way.