Responding to torture

(Ottawa, December 3, 2009) The majority of the House of Commons has just voted in favour of compensation and a formal apology for three Canadian Muslim men who were detained and tortured overseas. The vote was on a concurrence motion, moved by NDP MP Don Davies, and supported by all opposition parties, calling on the government to implement recommendations contained in a report by the parliamentary Public Safety Committee.  The report, tabled on June 18, 2009 and debated in the House of Commons today, came out of a study of findings by the Iacobucci Inquiry and the Arar Inquiry.