The Montreal Gazette (One of my favorite papers :) ) has an article on the recent developments in the Maher Arar saga.

Apparently the US offered to send Arar back to Canada ONLY if Canada would imprison him immediately upon arrival. Canada refused, claiming:

We have a Charter of Rights … we don’t have cause to arrest and press charges and put him in jail.

So the US sent him to Jordan and he was driven to Syria, his birthplace where he was imprisoned and tortured.

Bill Graham, the Foreign Affairs minister at the time has recently apologized about his conduct in the situation and indicated that things could have been “better handled”.

This is still one of the stories that I cannot believe happened. More to come.