Our current government repeatedly resumed handing over detainees, despite repeatedly halting because they saw (and evidently agreed with) evidence that our detainees were likely to face abuse. MacKay admitted to three more times this year alone.

You may be able to get away with claiming, “We never thought they would be tortured,” the first time, or even claiming, “We never thought they would torture prisoners a second time after we came to an agreement,” but when we’re trying to pass, “We never thought they would torture detainees a THIRD time?” There is a limit to what number you can shove into that sentence. “We never thought they would torture detainees a FOURTH time?” A FIFTH time? How many times did they resume detainee transfers?

The fact that there are problems in Afghanistan doesn’t give us the right to add to them, then try to cover it up and pretend that we are above the law.

Afghans did not ask us to invade their country, nor did they ask us to overthrow one brutal regime, and replace it with another, slightly more westernized, BRUTAL REGIME. None of us has a right to be impatient with Afghans. They are paying a much higher price for our reckless stupidity than we are.

Torture is wrong. Contributing to torture is wrong. It is a national disgrace (and more than a little creepy) that there are ANY Canadians who don’t know that.