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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Thats personally my problem with this whole thing.
We know that the Canadian's passed over prisoners to Afghanistan, they did it under the Liberal's they did it under the Conservatives.
I'm guessing the concern is how much care did we take to ensure that they weren't mistreated once they were handed over.
Personally to me, I don't know how much responsibility we should bare once we turned them over, and how much mistreatment happened. And while I'd like to know, I think we're wasting too much time and effort on this in government instead of working on more important issues.
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Yeah, and the correct way to do that would have been to let the committees continue to deal with the detainee issue, and let parliament focus on the bigger issues, rather than shutting down parliament for two months to try and submarine this issue (oh wait, that was to consult with Canadians on the economy... right).
For me, that's what the current issue is all about
: not whether anyone was tortured or whether people in the government knew it was happening (although O'Connor's complete ignorance about our obligation was pretty embarrassing), but rather that Harper's approach has been to throw up roadblocks at every step of the way, even at the expense of democratic process.