Canada official: Torture can be tolerated

[whatever4]

Just in case this wasn't posted already, had to share. There goes Canada, down the drain with us maybe

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/september2005/150905torturetolerated.htm
Canada official: Torture can be tolerated

UPI | September 15 2005

OTTAWA, Sept. 14 (UPI) -- A Canadian official, during a hearing about a Canadian citizen deported to Syria, said the country will cooperate with other nations that practice torture.

The Globe and Mail reports Canadian Security Intelligence Service lawyer Barbara McIsaac said that the government will work on anti-terrorism cases with governments that practice torture if it will save lives.

She was speaking at a commission hearing looking into Maher Arar's allegations that he was tortured while imprisoned in Syria.

The 36-year-old Syrian-born Canadian citizen was detained at New York's Kennedy Airport and deported to Syria despite his Canadian passport.

He claims he was tortured during interrogation there, until he lied that he was trained in Afghanistan by al-Qaida.

[jim3775]

1. People already hate CSIS this comission will make sure

their bullshit isn't put up with anymore. I cannot invision a Liberal party that wont actively work against this.

Edit: Maybe I can. That's why I support the NDP.

[truebrit71]

2. Unbelievable....

...simply unreal that anyone that would think that about any situation...ESPECIALLY a citizen of your own country....

[miss_kitty]

3. And apparently the government will cooperate

with governments that practice torture even if they grab up innocent vacationers who are not white and christian. And act in collusion with the US to stymie efforts to free the innocent.
Christ Canada! Don't go down this road!

[wtmusic]

4. Those Geneva Conventions are so quaint and adorable!

But we really must get on to the business of saving lives...

[Arkham House]

5. Now We Know Where Jack Bauer Has Gone To...

...he ended this season of "24" incognito and on the lam...apparently he's headed north to a country that can use him...:-(...

[Maple]

6. That is NOT an official

It was a lawyer asking a hypothetical question