Canada was unaware at the time that Arar had already been "rendered" to Syria, where he was tortured into false confessions of links to al Qaeda.
O'Connor concluded, in a section of his report that had also been secret until now, that the RCMP used information from an unnamed country to help obtain search warrants against several individuals in January 2002 -- as part of a wider anti-terrorist investigation known as Project A-O Canada.
Those details came out Thursday in the final disclosure of roughly 1,000 blacked-out words from the original 2006 report -- words which government lawyers argued would compromise national security, international relations or the defence of Canada if released.
Assistant RCMP Commissioner Mike McDonnell says Canada was keeping its word in keeping secret and acting upon intelligence information obtained relating to Arar.
"I think it's safe to say that all information comes with a caveat: that it's for our use and our use only and we protect the source," McDonnell said in an interview aired Sunday on CTV's Question Period, explaining the RCMP's view on why the information wasn't released.
"That's a common international practice, it's a common domestic practice on criminal intelligence -- that you need the other person's permission to act on that intelligence. The third party rule, it's called. So when we give our word to another agency that the information is for our use and our use alone, we prefer to protect that and keep our word."
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RCMP Defends Its Actions In The Arar Affair
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I participated in the 'peacekeeping' mission that was Canada's worst black eye. Somalia. Back then, videos of 'hazing' rituals (by members of the Van Doos!!) actions of JTF (baiting and shooting Somalis with food) and the actions of two individuals (google 'Corporal Clayton Matchee and Private Kyle Brown') but not the ROE's - Rules of Engagement given by the CDF were the reason that a public smear campaign led to the extiction of the Airborne Regiment.
The RCMP have done far more against your personal safety and security than the Airborne ever did contrary to Canada's international 'peacekeeping' image - and they are unrepentant about it.
I say this in all seriousness - Disband the RCMP.
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I believe you do Dr.C
and second the thought with this provisio: First do away with the mentality that sees a need for a national police FORCE (capped for emphasis only)who are allowed to do the shit they do!
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"When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do."
William Blake
The RCMP along with its equally evil twin sister known as CSIS, were created as the "non-military" means to protect the government at all costs, and it was most likely business as usual - following the government's orders - when it engaged in all of the aforementioned crimes.
So, if you want to see the RCMP/CSIS disbanded, you are also asking that the government be disbanded, since the two make up the whole package.
I fired that lot years ago. This would just be completion of the 'downsizing'.
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Most Canadians feel that justice was neither seen nor done in both of these cases. The persons involved must be charged and prosecuted to prevent others from doing the same without question and that includes the minister in charge. I personally would like to know what Stockwell Day had to do with this. We now know that the new head of the RCMP, the professional government employee bureaucrat, was involved in the cover up. The Conservative rewarding their supporters just like the Liberals did, same old same old.
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