Vic Toews, Canada's Minister for Public Safety, was outed this week as a torture enthusiast.
Toews doth protest. In a letter to the editor of the Globe and Mail he claims that Canada does not endorse torture. Instead, Canada outsources torture to less moral countries who are happy to do the dirty work. Often they do the actual dirty work with Canadian security agents in the room, be it in Syria or Libya or Sudan or some other God-forsaken hell-hole.
But Canada does not condone torture.
In his letter to the editor Toews makes it clear that our hands are squeaky clean. However, information gleaned through the torture process in other countries is and will be used by Canadian law-enforcement agencies to protect Canadian lives and Canadian property.
There you go, tree-huggers. Enjoy your free trip to Yemen!
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Saturday, February 11, 2012
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Top court refuses to hear torture case as Harper prepares to lecture Chinese on human rights
The Supreme Court of Canada on Thursday refused to hear an appeal brought by three muslim Canadians who claim they were tortured in Syria and Egypt because of information provided by Canada.
As you know, Canada is a light unto the nations when it comes to human rights. No humans have more rights than the lucky humans who count themselves Canadians. We have even exported our superior moral code in the form of the R2P doctrine that was used as the official excuse for NATO's rape of Libya.
There are some Canadians who would quibble with this assessment of Canada's moral superiority, but every party needs a pooper, is what I say. Those Indians in Attawapiskat, for example, who'd be freezing to death in their home and native land right now were it not for the intervention of the International Red Cross.
The Harper government had them figured out right away as a bunch of malcontent whiners. Send food! Send fuel oil? We're freezing and starving!...
Well, if you are, the Harperites replied, you have no one to blame but your own lazy and corrupt selves. Just look at the money we have lavished on you!
Same deal with these muslims now making their extravagant claims about torture. And they are but the tip of the proverbial ice-berg, let me assure you. Please note that none of these whiners claim to have been actually tortured in Canada! See what I mean? Our moral superiority remains intact.
No, we have adopted the out-sourcing model for torturing our nere-do-wells. We send our Arab malcontents to friendly Arab states for "enhanced interogation," along with a list of questions we would like the enhanced interogators to ask. Our friends in Syria or Egypt or Libya do all the interogation, apply all the enhancements, and clean Canadian hands stay clean!
None of which is likely to impress the Chinese when PM Harper delivers his obligatory rant about human rights when he visits next month. Not human rights abuses in Canada, of course, but in China. He'll say just enough to get a few headlines back in Canada; Harper chastises Chinese on human rights record.
Then it'll be on to the nitty gritty of the visit; Harper pleads with Chinese to buy our dirty oil.
As you know, Canada is a light unto the nations when it comes to human rights. No humans have more rights than the lucky humans who count themselves Canadians. We have even exported our superior moral code in the form of the R2P doctrine that was used as the official excuse for NATO's rape of Libya.
There are some Canadians who would quibble with this assessment of Canada's moral superiority, but every party needs a pooper, is what I say. Those Indians in Attawapiskat, for example, who'd be freezing to death in their home and native land right now were it not for the intervention of the International Red Cross.
The Harper government had them figured out right away as a bunch of malcontent whiners. Send food! Send fuel oil? We're freezing and starving!...
Well, if you are, the Harperites replied, you have no one to blame but your own lazy and corrupt selves. Just look at the money we have lavished on you!
Same deal with these muslims now making their extravagant claims about torture. And they are but the tip of the proverbial ice-berg, let me assure you. Please note that none of these whiners claim to have been actually tortured in Canada! See what I mean? Our moral superiority remains intact.
No, we have adopted the out-sourcing model for torturing our nere-do-wells. We send our Arab malcontents to friendly Arab states for "enhanced interogation," along with a list of questions we would like the enhanced interogators to ask. Our friends in Syria or Egypt or Libya do all the interogation, apply all the enhancements, and clean Canadian hands stay clean!
None of which is likely to impress the Chinese when PM Harper delivers his obligatory rant about human rights when he visits next month. Not human rights abuses in Canada, of course, but in China. He'll say just enough to get a few headlines back in Canada; Harper chastises Chinese on human rights record.
Then it'll be on to the nitty gritty of the visit; Harper pleads with Chinese to buy our dirty oil.
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