Canada is not flawless, by no means, but this is a disappointment. And yet – and I hate to say it – no surprise.
It adds that Britain, with a number of countries, has sent interrogators to Guantánamo Bay in a further example of what it says “can be reasonably understood as implicitly condoning” torture and ill-treatment, adding that the US was able to create its system for moving terror suspects around foreign jails only with the support of its allies.
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It identifies the UK, along with Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Croatia, Georgia, Indonesia, Kenya, Macedonia and Pakistan, as states that have provided “intelligence or have conducted the initial seizure of an individual before he was transferred to (mostly unacknowledged) detention centres in Afghanistan, Egypt, Ethiopia, Jordan, Pakistan, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Syria, Thailand, Uzbekistan … or to one of the CIA covert detention centres, often referred to as ‘black sites’”.
The rhetoric of ‘evil’ and ‘terrorism’ pushed Canada over the edge: clearly there existed – and exists – the option to not participate in such types of illegal activities. Why did we choose the other route?