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Beyond The Commons

Aaron Wherry covers all the goings-on in and around Parliament Hill. Follow Aaron on Twitter: @aaronwherry

'An issue of justice into an issue of politics'

by Aaron Wherry on Thursday, February 19, 2009 9:33am - 2 Comments

Irwin Cotler is nothing if not persistent.

There is no room for equivocation on this issue. Either the Conservative government appreciates that rights have been denied through the Guantanamo system of detention and military commissions – as both the United States Supreme Court and our own Canadian Supreme Court have declared – or it is standing alone in the international community while abandoning its citizen.

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  • TobyornotToby

    Yes, lets’ save the equivocation for human rights abuses by Israel, shall we?

  • Dot

    I think the issue went from one of justice to one of politics when the first Fifth Estate story ran on the Khadrs.

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