Who pays when government wrongs

By: Law is Cool · September 25, 2009 · Filed Under Civil Rights · Add Comment 

Abdelrazik sues Ottawa for $27-million

For every breach of right, there should be a remedy. When government officials taint themselves with torture, it is taxpayers who pay the remedy. But maybe not just taxpayers…

Paul Koring writes:

Abousfian Abdelrazik is suing the government – and Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon personally – for $27-million over Canada’s role in his arrest and alleged torture in Sudan and for violating his constitutional right to come home.

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