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Should Ottawa be doing more to bring Omar Khadr back to Canada?

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by macleans.ca on Monday, November 16, 2009 12:57pm - 131 Comments

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In February 2009, the Canadian Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-CAN) launched an initiative in support of Khadr's freedom. CAIR-CAN is the Canadian chapter of a US organization designated an "unindicted co-conspirator" by the US Department of Justice in the Holy Land Foundation terror trial in which all defendants were found guilty of enabling Islamist terror. CAIR-CAN also refuses to condemn by name such terrorist enterprises as Hezbollah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
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There is no reason for Canada to accept custody of such individuals, to have them on Canadian streets, or to sustain the expense of their attendant monitoring, surveillance, legal aid, healthcare and welfare, particularly when Canadians already face economic challenges from financial and security threats.

In short, Canada's Government must not trade our collective security in order to curry favour with radical Canadian pressure groups seeking freedom and taxpayer support for such individuals, who are only Canadian when it's convenient

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