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Quote by: Nono  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). |
When the Canadian courts overrule the Harper decision, then "Canada" will have placed the US and Israel on the terror watch list and not before. I hope the courts do exactly that. That said, this thread is premature.