The Abdelrazik affair exposed some of Canada’s poorly known but in-your-face draconian laws. James Yap of Osgoode Hall Law School wrote a fantastic post about the federal United Nations Act and the United Nations Al-Qaida and…
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…
Abousfian Abdelrazik, Omar Khadr and Suaad Hagi Mohamud all have something in common — they have faced, at one time or another, the federal government’s indifference to their intolerable circumstances. Our national legal community is…
Spy watchdog to probe CSIS conduct in Abdelrazik case The probe pulls the agency closer to the centre of the Abdelrazik controversy. A federal judge, in ordering Ottawa to bring Mr. Abdelrazik home from Sudan,…
Canada ‘indifferent’ to Sudan’s threat to kill Abdelrazik, files show
CSIS doesn’t protect Canadians, it helps get them abandoned in foreign countries. The Toronto Star revealed today that Justice Zinn’s judgment over CSIS complicity in Abousfian Abdelrazik being stranded in Sudan will not be challenged. …
By Krystalline Kraus Published on rabble.ca (http://www.rabble.ca), reproduced here on author’s request Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney have the political power to decide who they want to let…
Note: This piece was subsequently published on March 26, 2009 in the StarPhoenix. Available online here Due process is a long-standing Canadian principle. It is enshrined in our legal tradition as a safeguard against the…
