The following article at Open Democracy should be of interest to Canadians in view of the current controversy surrounding the use of torture in Afghanistan and the Canadian government being complicit in it.
http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/ali-dayan-hasan/uk-complicity-in-torture-in-pakistan

http://www.vivelecanada.ca/article/2359 ... convention
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