To:Prime Minister Stephen Harper pm@pm.gc.ca
CC:NDP Leader Jack Layton Layton.J@parl.gc.ca,
Liberal Party Leader Michael Ignatieff Ignatieff.M@parl.gc.ca
Bloc Quebecois Leader Gilles Duceppe DucepG@parl.gc.ca
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Subject: I Want a Torture Inquiry
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Dear Prime Minister Harper,
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I am very concerned by the recent testimony of senior intelligence officer Richard Colvin.
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According to Mr. Colvin, who served in Afghanistan and is currently posted to Canada's embassy in Washington, the government received repeated warnings that people who were taken prisoner and transferred to Afghan authorities by Canadian troops were tortured by the Afghans. Yet the Canadian government failed to act.
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I support the call for an independent public inquiry into the possibility that government and military officials abandoned their responsibility to ensure Canada acted within Canadian and International law, and upheld Canadian values.
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It was mentioned in comments at Mentarch's that petitions are useless.
Verifiable petitions like this one from Ceasefire are read aloud in the House of Commons.
How else are they gonna know we're paying attention?
Who's with us?
