June 18, 2009
MPs call on government apologize to and compensate El Maati, Almalki and Nureddin
The Public Safety Committee’s report on the Iacobucci/Arar Inquiries was successfully tabled in Parliament today, and calls on the government to ensure ALL of the Arar Inquiry recommendations are implemented (including the until-now entirely ignored call for a robust, independent, integrated review mechanism for agencies involved in national security investigations); to issue a formal apology to Ahmad El Maati, Abdullah Almalki and Muayyed Nureddin; and to move to compensate them. Importantly, the report also calls on the government to correct the misinformation about these men shared in Canada and with other countries. The full report is available here.
