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Canadians & torture: We like to watch

12/17/2014 by the editor

By Alison@Creekside Canada’s collateral fallout from the Senate Intelligence Committee summary on the torture of prisoners at CIA “black site” prisons around the world: A spokesman for Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney’s office said Wednesday that Canada does not engage in, or condone, torture by national security agencies but …  Canada will act on ‘a tip […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Abousfian Abdelrazik, Abu Zubaydah, Bruce Carson, Canada, CIA, CSIS, FBI, Guantanamo, Jim Judd, Maher Arar, Omar Khadr, Richard Colvin, Senate Intelligence Committee, Stephen Harper, Steven Blaney, torture, U.S. politics

The Colvin e-mails: so unimportant we can’t see them

04/16/2010 by backofthebook.ca

By Alison@Creekside Over at the Military Police Complaints Commission, Department of Justice lawyer Alain Préfontaine is trying to prove that diplomat Richard Colvin’s emails flagging abuse of Afghan prisoners were so vaguely worded that the government could not possibly be held responsible for failing to understand what he was talking about. Colvin and MPCC chair […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Afghanistan, Canada, Canadian military, Conservatives, Richard Colvin, torture

Richard Colvin’s devastating reply

12/19/2009 by backofthebook.ca

By Alison@Creekside On Airshow Peter MacKay’s attempt to discredit Canadian diplomat Richard Colvin by accusing him of not having brought up detainee abuse the one time MacKay met with Colvin in Afghanistan: He, Colvin, had only been on the job for 10 days and had not met with any detainees yet. And even if he […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Afghanistan, Canada, Canadian military, Canadian politics, Cheryl Gallant, Christie Blatchford, Colleen Sword, Conservatives, David Mulroney, Jim Abbott, Laurie Hawn, Peter MacKay, Richard Colvin, Stephen Harper, torture

The Cons’ torture blackout continues

12/13/2009 by backofthebook.ca

By Alison@Creekside Among the many fakeries and falsehoods foisted on the House on Thursday by the Cons, in their bid to maintain the most secretive and unaccountable government evah, usual frontrunners Laurie Goldie Hawn and Cheryl Gallant got beat out by Gary Goodyear, Minister of Creationism, Science, and Technology. Here he is explaining why the […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Afghanistan, Canada, Canadian military, Canadian politics, Cheryl Gallant, Conservatives, Gary Goodyear, Laurie Hawn, Peter McKay, Richard Colvin, Stephen Harper, torture

Steve hides behind his troops

12/02/2009 by backofthebook.ca

By Alison@Creekside Faced with mounting condemnation for government ass-covering over Richard Colvin’s testimony about Afghan detainees, Harper resorts to an oblique slight-of-tongue blackmail : “There were allegations of Canadian troops involved in torture. We’ve been very clear that’s not the case.” So who is pointing fingers at the troops? No one. No. One. But. Steve. […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Afghanistan, Canada, Canadian military, Christie Blatchford, Conservatives, Richard Colvin, Stephen Harper

Richard Colvin and the Wankers

11/23/2009 by backofthebook.ca

By Alison@Creekside Wow. More of the smearing of witnesses we’ve come to expect from the Cons, this time at the Special Committee on the Canadian Mission in Afghanistan. – Cheryl Gallant. Although Richard Colvin took pains in his opening statement to the Special Committee on the Canadian Mission in Afghanistan to make clear that he […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Afghanistan, Canada, Canadian military, Cheryl Gallant, Conservatives, Jim Abbott, Laurie Hawn, Peter Goldring, Peter MacKay, Richard Colvin, Stephen Harper, torture

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