Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper in contempt of Parliament

Detainee files : CTV Power Play: MPs on the detainee issue

NDP MP Jack Harris and Liberal MP Ujjal Dosanjh discuss the federal Conservative minority government's refusal to turn over unredacted documents on the Afghan detainee torture issue to Parliament, and instead turning them over of a ruling on whether documents should be released to MPs to a former Supreme Court judge Frank Iacobucci.

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News & Politics

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• Canada
• Afghan prisoner
• prisoner torture
• detainee
• constitutional crisis
• Stephen Harper
• Justice Minister Rob Nicholson
• Frank Iacobucci
• contempt of Parliament

[Pax00Imperium]

So, you're saying that Canadian soldiers and officials in the know were probably guilty of what occured, but that it would cost too much to deal with it.

That's such a bad reason not to do the right thing it hurts my brain to think about it.

[BoredomCorner]

If you really want to torture people just because you don't like them, then you're no better than the Taliban.

[Misslissmissymiss]

@lomfgbbq ya and now he is pushing a new crime bill that is a disgrace!!

[pluto4847]

@lomfgbbq

I'm an American, but I have been watching the Canadian parliament on the C-span network. Do you think Jack Leyton will be the new Prime Minister?

[lomfgbbq]

Now Harper cannot be re-elected for this year's election :/

[BloatedSensations]

@elmiraviking "Loss of freedom seldom happens overnight. Oppression doesn't stand on the doorstep with toothbrush mustache and swastika armband -- it creeps up insidiously... step by step, until, all of a sudden, the unfortunate citizen realizes that it is gone." ~  Baron Lane

[BoredomCorner]

@elmiraviking It's on its way to being there -- the Tories have declared a simple protest group to be radicals, they've declared exposing their ties to the Christian Right to be hate speech, their supporters were probably the ones cutting the brakes of Liberal supporters in the last election, etc.

[elmiraviking]

You morons who complain about Canada being a fascist state would be in prison if it actually were.

[BoredomCorner]

Wow Elmira, way to defend Canadian values -- by robbing freedom of speech and supporting a fascist state.

[elmiraviking]

If only Ujjal Dosanjh would get muzzled. He'd be the guest of honour at an Idiot Party.