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Racial Profiling Must Stop
Tue Jun 21, 2021

What you and your family suffered is shameful and atrocious. As a fellow Canadian I am ashamed that our country and government was pulled into this panic-stricken and thoughtless treatment of Muslim and Arabic people. People are responsible for their own actions, not for the actions of a few that may look somewhat like them.


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Alarm Bells Should Have Gone Off Sooner
Sat Jun 04, 2021

What should come out of the Arar Inquiry is a recommendation for the institution of a mechanism that would weed out racists from our police and frontline bureaucracy.

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Why was Mr. Arar Sent to Syria?
Wed Jun 01, 2021

Why was Mr. Arar sent to Syria? That is the real question of the inquiry.

The New York Times, quoting Rep. Edward Markey, seems to have got the picture: "The reason the U.S. sent Mr. Arar to Syria and not Canada is that Syria tortures people and Canada doesn't."

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