Is Stephen Harper OK with the Torture of Canadians?

The answer appears to be yes. Stephen Harper has done absolutely nothing to have “Omar Khadr, the Canadian Guantánamo detainee who was just 15 years old when he was captured in Afghanistan in July 2002,” returned to Canada.

Read Canada’s Gitmo Torture Warning Shows Double Standards (by Andy Worthington - 01/21/08 - antiwar.com) for the details but the crux of it reduces to this nifty syllogism:

1. Canada recently made public (albeit in error) that it thinks people risk being tortured at Guantánamo Bay.

2. Canadian Omar Khadr is being held at Guantánamo Bay

Therefore:

3. Canada - and by implication its noble leader Stephen Harper - think Omar Khadr risks being tortured.

Harper, obviously can make this logical deduction so what are we to conclude? Harper thinks it OK for the U.S. to torture Canadians.

Welcome to the Conservative Party of Canada.

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