CANADIAN JUSTICE/SECURITY CERTIFICATES ARE BRUTAL

The cases of Canadians being mistreated and abused via allegations of terrorism are still rising. Yesterday's Waterloo Region Record has this article "Reasons for 12-year detention getting murky". Please no investigation takes twelve years unless you aren't trying or you are intentionally delaying all along. In this case evidence has been established that Egyptian Security forces under the former President Mubarak routinely invented plots by their political opponents simply as excuses to round them up. In this particular instance the individual involved has been in Canada since 1995 and either in jail or under house arrest here since 2000. Thomas Walkom in his article raises excellent questions as to the competence and integrity of cabinet ministers involved with the security certificate process.

CSIS also has dirty hands. The Canadian Security and Intelligence Service gained much of its' "intelligence" from the likes of torture loving despots including Egyptian ones. The older I get the more embarassed and ashamed I am of being a citizen of a country whose government is able to rationalize unjust, unethical and immoral treatment of human beings. This would include the Ottawa area engineer Arar, the child soldier Khadr and now this Egytian born person who came to Canada as a refugee. Good Lord our justice system is in enough trouble as it is but to literally have two sets of rules for two classes of citizens and residents is worse than pathetic. It's a public embarassment and I'm old enough to remember when Canada was known around the world as a moral and ethical country. Not so much anymore.