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Sure the RCMP was way, way, way wrong in the Maher Arar tragedy.
And every single one of those redactions in Justice O'Connor's report must be brought out into the light for all to see.
But the bigger issue here is this 'deep integration' business between Canada and the United States.
Which goes way past the fact that you can no longer go fishing in the Vancouver Harbour.
I mean, do we really want to see Mr. Harper's director of communications Sandra Buckler stand up and make statements like those noted below when secret, congressionally-approved, habeus corpus-free torture rooms are discovered by some of our more famous Prairie bloggers on the sidebar under, say, the North Fork of the Saskatchewan River?
QUESTION: There are allegations that we sent people to Syria to be tortured…
MCCLELLAN: To Syria?
QUESTION: Yes. You’ve never heard of any allegations like that?
MCCLELLAN: No, I’ve never heard that one. That’s a new one.
QUESTION: Syria? You haven’t heard that?
MCCLELLAN: That’s a new one.
QUESTION: Well, I can assure you it’s been well publicized. My question is…
MCCLELLAN: By what, bloggers?
What was that all about, you might be asking?
Well, that was former White House Press Secretary Scott McLellan responding to questions about Maher Arar's kidnap-assisted rendition to Syria after it was revealed on the front page of the Washington Post last January.
OK?
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