Arar report to be delayed as inquiry sorts out federal secrecy claims

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Jim Brown
Canadian Press
Wednesday, September 14, 2005

OTTAWA (CP) - A public report on the Maher Arar affair will be delayed until next March, largely because of haggling over how much of the evidence ought to remain secret on national security grounds.

Paul Cavalluzzo, chief counsel to the inquiry headed by Justice Dennis O'Connor, said Wednesday that nobody realized, when work started last year, how arduous a task it would be to balance security concerns with the public's right to know.

"The commission had little appreciation of how much information would be subject to national security confidentiality claims," Cavalluzzo told a news conference. <snip>

http://www.canada.com/vancouver/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=f243a6ed-258d-44fd-97a9-57eef8c66eeb


<edit:> Torture sometimes is justified, Ottawa says

By JEFF SALLOT
Wednesday, September 14, 2005 Page A7

OTTAWA -- Extraordinary circumstances might force Canada to co-operate in anti-terrorism investigations with regimes that practise torture, such as Syria, in order to save lives, federal lawyers suggested yesterday at the Maher Arar inquiry. <snip>

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20050914/ARAR14/TPNational/TopStories

[Maple]

1. Very misleading headline

on the second one!

They make it sound like our MPs are waiting with hot pincers or thumb screws or something.

A lawyer simply asks a hypothetical question.