http://kerrypither.com author • advocate • commentator Mon, 31 Jan 2011 21:04:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://kerrypither.com/2009/10/government-still-stalling-on-watchdog-for-national-security-investigations/ http://kerrypither.com/2009/10/government-still-stalling-on-watchdog-for-national-security-investigations/#comments Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:08:39 +0000 kerry http://kerrypither.com/?p=428 government's response to the Commons Public Safety Committee report, which called for implementation of all of the Arar Inquiry's recommendations without delay. The government's response was tabled last week on the one-year anniversary of the release of former Supreme Court Justice Frank Iacobucci's report, which determined that Canadian agencies had contributed to the torture of Ahmad El Maati Abdullah Almalki and Muayyed Nureddin by sharing unsubstantiated allegations about them with Syrian, Egyptian, U.S. and other agencies. The government says it can't act now to correct the record because of ongoing litigation — another excuse that has no credibility. Read more in my op-ed in the Ottawa Citizen today.]]> http://kerrypither.com/2009/10/government-still-stalling-on-watchdog-for-national-security-investigations/feed/ 0