Comments on: Speed-readers’ guide to the Iacobucci Inquiry http://kerrypither.com/2008/10/ten-things-to-look-for-in-the-iacobucci-report/ author • advocate • commentator Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:47:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Arif Jinha http://kerrypither.com/2008/10/ten-things-to-look-for-in-the-iacobucci-report/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Arif Jinha Wed, 22 Oct 2008 01:23:00 +0000 http://kerrypither.com/?p=117#comment-4 Hi Kerry, I watched the Stockwell Day interview and was encouraged to hear you speak up and more truthfully about the situation. In my view, Stockwell Day cannot possibly be committed to oversight. He has placed himself above the law repeatedly on a number of occasions; in regards to the complicity in the torture of Omar Khadr of CSIS interrogators reporting to him and his dismissal of the court judgments with regard to that; and more recently the repeated use of the national security clause in the ITOA to block the transfer of Canadian citizens even when both countries prison systems agree and recommend transfer. Clearly Stockwell Day, is either suffering from paranoid delusions in regards to what constitutes a national security threat, or more likely in the absence of oversight he is abusing his discretion. Recent judgment by the Federal Court Judge Michael Kalen in the Getkate case found the refusal decisions 'wholly unreasonable', yet Stockwell Day gone on to use the same rationale to refuse after the decision. He is now being sued for contempt of court. This issue has affected me deeply having a friend who suffered a miscarriage of justice in Florida in a case where Canadian courts would have no doubt found him not criminally responsible. He has bipolar, committed an act of incompetence and incapacity where no one was physically injured but where he nonetheless received a twenty year sentence for 'second-degree attempted murder'. He is now very ill, having contracted hep C in jail in Florida, having suffered injudicious solitary confinements, and no proper treatment for his bipolar. He was only 19 at the time and has been in jail for nearly four years already. His story appeared on the Verdict last year (Sacha Bond). I am now working also with Michael Kapoustin, who has returned from 13 yrs of prison in Bulgaria, and is determined to reform the system starting with DFAIT. We feel that we have to bring the stakeholders together behind a common purpose of reform, those citizens and their families who are affected by imprisonment/detention abroad and suffered injustice as a result of our governments actions, whether it is Public Safety and transfers, RCMP, DFAIT or CSIS. Feel free to get in touch with either of us, michael can be reached through www.michaelkapoustin.com thanks again for your good work, Arif Jinha Hi Kerry,

I watched the Stockwell Day interview and was encouraged to hear you speak up and more truthfully about the situation. In my view, Stockwell Day cannot possibly be committed to oversight. He has placed himself above the law repeatedly on a number of occasions; in regards to the complicity in the torture of Omar Khadr of CSIS interrogators reporting to him and his dismissal of the court judgments with regard to that; and more recently the repeated use of the national security clause in the ITOA to block the transfer of Canadian citizens even when both countries prison systems agree and recommend transfer. Clearly Stockwell Day, is either suffering from paranoid delusions in regards to what constitutes a national security threat, or more likely in the absence of oversight he is abusing his discretion. Recent judgment by the Federal Court Judge Michael Kalen in the Getkate case found the refusal decisions ‘wholly unreasonable’, yet Stockwell Day gone on to use the same rationale to refuse after the decision.

He is now being sued for contempt of court. This issue has affected me deeply having a friend who suffered a miscarriage of justice in Florida in a case where Canadian courts would have no doubt found him not criminally responsible. He has bipolar, committed an act of incompetence and incapacity where no one was physically injured but where he nonetheless received a twenty year sentence for ‘second-degree attempted murder’. He is now very ill, having contracted hep C in jail in Florida, having suffered injudicious solitary confinements, and no proper treatment for his bipolar. He was only 19 at the time and has been in jail for nearly four years already. His story appeared on the Verdict last year (Sacha Bond).

I am now working also with Michael Kapoustin, who has returned from 13 yrs of prison in Bulgaria, and is determined to reform the system starting with DFAIT. We feel that we have to bring the stakeholders together behind a common purpose of reform, those citizens and their families who are affected by imprisonment/detention abroad and suffered injustice as a result of our governments actions, whether it is Public Safety and transfers, RCMP, DFAIT or CSIS.

Feel free to get in touch with either of us, michael can be reached through http://www.michaelkapoustin.com

thanks again for your good work,

Arif Jinha

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