According to Senator Pierre de Bané:
"The Americans told our Canadian services that they were ready to hand over Mr. Arar on the condition that you commit yourselves to arresting him and putting him in prison and charging him...
"And the Canadian services said to the Americans following that, 'We have a Charter of Rights and Freedoms here in Canada, and we do not have sufficient evidence that would allow for his arrest, for charging him and for putting him into prison."
Canada's options: unconstitutionally lock up one of its own citizens in the absence of evidence, or allow him to rendered to Syria. Imagine how much worse a choice the U.S. would have offered if it wasn't "promoting freedom around the world".
My God how Kafkaesque. I am bioth proud and ashamed of our officials at the same time. Proud they stood up to the Amnericans and their KGB tactics but ashamed that Mahar Arar ended up being tortured in a Syrian prison because of it.
ReplyDeleteI guess we should not for get who the real villians in this story are:
U-S-A! U-S-A!...
Facism creeps another step closer...