As I wrote about last night, former Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day testified before a Federal Court on Thursday to explain why, in 2008, he renewed five security certificates, including one against Mohamed Mahjoub which was the subject of the proceeding. Predictably, Day was asked about the possibility that some of the evidence against the men in question was the product of torture. His response was reported this way by the Globe and Mail:
Mr. Day said he considered whether evidence used to make the assessment might have come from torture. Records show the CSIS director of the wrote memos telling Mr. Day it was “difficult if not impossible” to determine whether torture taints any particular intelligence exchange between Canada and a foreign state.
The CBC put it in stronger terms:
Former Conservative public safety minister Stockwell Day says there were warnings that some of the information in a security . . . → Read More: Peace, order and good government, eh?: Understatement