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Quote by: Decider If the Canadian government disowned the document in question then "Canada" didn't place the US and Israel on a torture watch list. The title of the thread and the article is misleading. |
No. Completely wrong. There's something in Canada called the rule of law. The government is not free to arbitrarily apply one yardstick to its friends (the Americans, the Israelis, whoever) and a different yardstick to people it doesn't like (a long list here... let's say Iran for example).
Canada is party to the Torture Convention and a good many other human rights treaties besides. So Stephen Harper is full of shit, as usual.
If it's Canada's policy to have a watch list on torture, and if civil servants who are experts in international law put this or that country on that list, Harper (or his creature/minister at foreign affairs) cannot protest just because it rubs them the wrong way. If they do, they're showing contempt for the rule of law.
This demonstrates what a disgrace the current Canadian federal government is (a minority government, I hasten to add).