The torturers need to know that we will not leave them alone because we cannot say that we were unaware of what was going on. |
Can the Minister of National Defence tell us who made the decision that Canada would act as paymasters for torturers in Afghanistan? |
The role of the torturers was played by plain-clothes officers from the local police. |
An official policy of torture corrupts the torturers and the people charged with overseeing it. |
What the high court has done, however, is to at least bring the torturers within the orbit of the law, subject to some form of accountability and judicial restraint. |
Do we trust torturers to pick the people they want to drag into a dark room? |