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#cdnleft The Jaffer stuff is one part of the faux ‘tough on crime’ Conservative position: Everyone ... http://trim.li/nk/1ryy #cdnpoli #lpc 13 hours ago
For those of you who are blog-aware, this makes me go "huh?" and "ugh" at the same time: http://is.gd/a8SYn 18 hours ago
Bureaucrats in PCO objected to partisan Cdn Ec. Action plan: http://is.gd/a5Jyh (Everyone seems to be leaking stories these days) 2010/03/10
..to get information Cdn officals could not obtain (ie using torture) and he instead hid behind the troops and didnt give a direct answer. 2010/03/10
Very interesting: Justice minister Nicholson had a chance on a yes or no answer to deny Cdn officials were handing over prisoners.. 2010/03/10

1 part fundraising move, 1 part ideology = Harper's stance on Omar Khadr (& other matters)

Posted by Scott Tribe on August 18, 2009, at 11:53 am |

There’s a column in the Star today from Professor Errol Mendes, who teaches constitutional and international law at the University of Ottawa, on the background of the Omar Khadr case as it has wound through the Canadian courts. There is also an observation or 2 from Professor Mendes about Stephen Harper being offside with the [...]

Sue 'em.

Posted by Scott Tribe on July 24, 2009, at 2:04 am |

After reading this bit of horror, I think Abousfian Abdelrazik has as good a case as Maher Arar did to sue the Canadian government for the way they refused to help him and how they treated him. I’d love to hear Deepak Obhrai explain right about now why he couldn’t even look the guy in [...]

Blogger Dr. Dawg spends Canada Day with Abousfian Abdelrazik.

Posted by Scott Tribe on July 1, 2009, at 5:56 pm |

This is a pretty cool blogpost that has a couple of pretty cool pictures there with the Doctor and the recently returned home Abousfian Abdelrazik (who can thank the Federal Court for his return home, and not to our disgrace of a government, who wouldnt even allow him to fly to Montreal from Toronto once [...]

Conservative government appeals the Omar Khadr order to request his repatriation.

Posted by Scott Tribe on May 8, 2009, at 4:20 pm |

No surprise here for me about this decision by the Conservatives; they’re obviously going to go to the bitter (judicial) end to avoid any real action on Omar Khadr unless the Supreme Court forces them, or Obama beats them to the punch: (read [...]

Watching the Abousfian Abdelrazik case with interest.

Posted by Scott Tribe on May 8, 2009, at 12:03 pm |

I’ve said before that I thought Abousfian Abdelrazik would have a stronger case before the Federal Court on being allowed back into Canada then Omar Khadr (and note that Omar did win his case – at least in the Federal Court), simply because of all the promises given to him by the government and then [...]

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1 part fundraising move, 1 part ideology = Harper's stance on Omar Khadr (& other matters)

Sue 'em.

Blogger Dr. Dawg spends Canada Day with Abousfian Abdelrazik.

Conservative government appeals the Omar Khadr order to request his repatriation.

Watching the Abousfian Abdelrazik case with interest.

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