Deal Won't Help, Arar Inquiry Told

The matter of Canada/US relations the Canadian people have been the losers and their wishes for their country have rarely been followed by those entrusted to express those wishes. It seems to suggest, too, that US leaders have always had, and expressed, a clear interest in subordinating Canadian wealth and freedom to the needs and wants of the USA.

When will those that are elected to represent Canadians start making decisions that are based on what is best for all of Canada and Canadians instead of what is best for Corporate Canada?

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Perception is two thirds of what we perceive reality to be.

Difficult decisions are a privilege of rank.

> to his native Syria.

So?

All Canandian officials pushed him away, and in doing so, effectively covered their eyes, and said "make him go away!"

That's why he went to Syria. Ameica didn't want him.

So, you've got a problem with how a native Syrian was treated in Syria? Take it up with the Syrians involved.

Otherwise, continue whining about how the weak Canadian government was unable to standup for the rights of its own citizens.

Frankly, I'd rather see you get off your butt and do something about it.

Just step off your pedestal long enough to stop blaming Americans for your own gutless policies! A whole lot of Americans are getting really, really pissed at Canadians for doing exactly that...

Now, everybody vote this one comment as being really, evilly, bad, and like, so just, um, not cool, and maybe even pro-American, and anti-Canadian, eh?

Truth hurts.

As a disgusted Canadian, I cannot help but agree with you. The entire Arar matter was the fault of a weak, duplicitious Canadian government, which lacks the courage or principle to stand up for its own citizens, and allows itself to be bullied and cowed by an America which has clearly abandoned all its time honoured and cherished values.

It shames many of us to see all those trashy politicans standing po-faced before the Arar inquiry and saying: "I know nothing, my public servants kept me in the dark or; it's those blankedy-blank Americans, not me, not us. After all what am I supposed to do except take my princely salary and tell my electors to shut up? Make sure you vote for me again. I promise I will continue to know nothing and do nothing. What garbage!

And you know what? Too damn many of us will do just that. That's why a year or two from now there will be another Arar case or another sponsorship scandal, and everybody will say "how could it happen AGAIN"? It will happen because we will let it happen.

I am also deeply ashamed of those intensely cowardly people who are using so-called "national security" as an excuse to cover up what certainly appears to many to be gross incompetence or serious wrongdoing in this case. Their actions are, in my opinion, as reprehensible of those of Karla Homolka, and they do the whole nation a great disservice every time they play another of these childish, silly games to keep the truth from coming out. Shame on you! Canada deserves better.

Yes, whoever you are out there, your'e right. The Americans are not entirely blameless, but mostly its our fault, and yes, we should do something about it. But what? If I knew, I would do it, and there are lot of others like me. But we don't. Got any ideas?