10 MIL, canada pays for USA torture parade

[Verotik]

Ottawa reaches $10M settlement with Arar
Last Updated: Thursday, January 25, 2007 | 11:29 PM ET
CBC News

Ottawa has reached a $10-million settlement with Maher Arar over Canada's role in a U.S. decision to deport him to Syria, where he was jailed and tortured.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper is scheduled to make the settlement announcement on Friday afternoon, when he will also issue a formal apology to Arar on behalf of Canadians. Sources told the CBC the government will also pick up Arar's legal fees.

Maher Arar, shown in September, had originally sought millions in compensation and a government apology.Maher Arar, shown in September, had originally sought millions in compensation and a government apology.
(CBC)

Arar, a Canadian citizen born in Syria, had originally sought $37-million in compensation and an official government apology. In previous comments, Harper said that any apology would accompany a settlement.

The apology is expected to highlight that Arar and his family suffered extensively.

Arar, who now lives in Kamloops, B.C., will be in Ottawa on Friday and plans to speak to the media after Harper's announcement.

In 2002, the engineer was living in Ottawa and coming back from a vacation when he was arrested during a stopover at New York's JFK Airport.

[Verotik]

He should be filing suit against the USA and seizing usa assets

[pylus]

He'd have to go to court in the US.... yea I'd trust that. Abusive America?

[darryl smith]

I dont care where he goes but he should not be here!

[Soundbear]

Barrack, you want to explain that???

[pylus]

I suppose we don't have to prove anything beyond a reasonable doubt for thinking this dude (anyone thinking racial profiling?)is a terrorist I suppose, constitution be damned.

There are some words I find appropriate for this whole concept

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." ~ Benjamin Franklin

And I firmly believe that we will get what we deserve in the end from [censored] around like this.

would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." ~ Thomas Jefferson

"Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one." — Benjamin Franklin

But why would we listen to those dead people, they didn't know what they where talking about because its all different now right....

[pylus]

The best way I can put it is to steal some D.D. Eisenhower words.

"The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without."

[darryl smith]

There were very clear concerns about this man from two security and law enforcement communities. The fact that Liberal courts and lawyers saved his [censored] does not suprise me...I still think we owe hime a plain ticket!.

[GRUMPY]

Well actually the thing is he IS a Canadian! But most important the Americans were acting on bad info given to them by the RCMP so he was suing the right people. This has nothing to do with Liberal courts and lawyers the man was hung out to dry by agents of HIS own government. As for the moronic statement that he shouldn't be here if that was true then there'd just be red men in canoes! Or in your perfect world only the few that you ok are permitted in? Funny thing is and I know it's off the topic a bit but I recently watch a show on the History channel the mentioned the the man who signed the papers to ship all the Japanese to the camps was himself an immigrant having been born in England. So here you had a newcomer signing papers to put people into camps that had been here for generations.

[darryl smith]

Why did syria(I believe it was them but I might be wrong) want to persecute this guy? He had some form of a connection there. Being an ex RCMP officer myself I am deffinitly on their side, if they made a mistake then fine but they dont just single people out at random, there had to be more to the story and we will never hear it so lets just suffice to say he was successful in getting some tax payers money in his pocket.

[Soundbear]

I'd forgotten how perfect the RCMP is.

"We always get our man"

Now it's "We always get A man, and if he ain't guilty, tough"

[K3lvin]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: barrack</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Why did syria(I believe it was them but I might be wrong) want to persecute this guy? He had some form of a connection there. Being an ex RCMP officer myself I am deffinitly on their side, if they made a mistake then fine but they dont just single people out at random, there had to be more to the story and we will never hear it so lets just suffice to say he was successful in getting some tax payers money in his pocket. </div></div>


Joking right? So, anytime there is "more to the story", someone's guilty because of this? As for Syria, would you go there?

[GRUMPY]

Actually till about 6 months ago my brother was there working for an oil company, he's worked in many countries but he said he found Syria one of the nicest.He had a little trouble at the start with some shop keepers but once they found out he was a Canadian and not an American things took an up turn. He felt that the average guy on the street there was great.

[K3lvin]

I must have been speaking from an American POV, not unlike Barrack. I guess it's just easier to sit and judge from the safety of your home, then in a detention cell being tortured. I just wish Barrack could contact his RC buddies and get the rest of this story for us. Suspense is killing me.

[Wrangler35]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: verotik667</div><div class="ubbcode-body">He should be filing suit against the USA and seizing usa assets </div></div> Or some thing like that!

[GenX]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Grumpy</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Actually till about 6 months ago my brother was there working for an oil company, he's worked in many countries but he said he found Syria one of the nicest.He had a little trouble at the start with some shop keepers but once they found out he was a Canadian and not an American things took an up turn. He felt that the average guy on the street there was great. </div></div>

Of course!

They knew if he was Canadian and not American, they were dealing with someone who was not a threat to them intellectually, or in a motivational sense. Here was a guy who was happy to believe everything CBC shoved down his throat, and also happy to let bureaucrats tell him what to do, and when to do it.

Everyone should have a Canadian for a pet.