First they came for...
My spleen, it continues to need to vent:
The Foreign Affairs committee had called for Mr. Abdelrazik to appear before it next month as a witness and hoped to enforce that demand by getting a Speaker's warrant if the government continued to block his return to Canada.
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Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon has already told the committee that he has no intention of bowing to its demand that he provide Mr. Abdelrazik with a one-way, emergency travel document so he can return to his family in Canada.
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NDP MP Paul Dewar, who led the effort in the Foreign Affairs committee to have Mr. Abdelrazik called as a witness, accuses Mr. Cannon of insulting the committee and Parliament.
“We not asking him to do anything outside of the realm of international law or national security,” Mr. Dewar said Thursday. The travel ban imposed by the UN blacklist allows for citizens to return home.
Mr. Walsh acknowledged that the government could, if it chooses, repatriate a citizen, although he declined to address Mr. Abdelrazik's case because it is currently before a federal court.
Mr. Dewar still he hopes that Mr. Abdelrazik will make the June 15 date set for his appearance before the committee. A group of supporters has announced it will purchase another airline ticket to fly Mr. Abdelrazik, who has been living in “temporary safe haven” in the Canadian embassy for more than a year, to Montreal from Khartoum on June 12.
And I'm not even discussing my crankitude about the new allegations around the Abu Ghraib photos that the Obama government is refusing to release. I'll leave that for pecunium.
ETA: In the top twenty reasons I should never read the Globe & Mail comment thread, "It would be nice of the media would differentiate in their headlines between a real Canadian citizen and a "citizen of convenience"." may be a winner.
ETA2: Especially since I very much doubt that commenter would consider my hopefully-soon-to-be-a-Canadian-immigrant (white) partner to be a "citizen of convenience." Despite the fact that I, for one, happen to think it would be much more convenient, aside from all else.
The Foreign Affairs committee had called for Mr. Abdelrazik to appear before it next month as a witness and hoped to enforce that demand by getting a Speaker's warrant if the government continued to block his return to Canada.
[...]
Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon has already told the committee that he has no intention of bowing to its demand that he provide Mr. Abdelrazik with a one-way, emergency travel document so he can return to his family in Canada.
[...]
NDP MP Paul Dewar, who led the effort in the Foreign Affairs committee to have Mr. Abdelrazik called as a witness, accuses Mr. Cannon of insulting the committee and Parliament.
“We not asking him to do anything outside of the realm of international law or national security,” Mr. Dewar said Thursday. The travel ban imposed by the UN blacklist allows for citizens to return home.
Mr. Walsh acknowledged that the government could, if it chooses, repatriate a citizen, although he declined to address Mr. Abdelrazik's case because it is currently before a federal court.
Mr. Dewar still he hopes that Mr. Abdelrazik will make the June 15 date set for his appearance before the committee. A group of supporters has announced it will purchase another airline ticket to fly Mr. Abdelrazik, who has been living in “temporary safe haven” in the Canadian embassy for more than a year, to Montreal from Khartoum on June 12.
And I'm not even discussing my crankitude about the new allegations around the Abu Ghraib photos that the Obama government is refusing to release. I'll leave that for pecunium.
ETA: In the top twenty reasons I should never read the Globe & Mail comment thread, "It would be nice of the media would differentiate in their headlines between a real Canadian citizen and a "citizen of convenience"." may be a winner.
ETA2: Especially since I very much doubt that commenter would consider my hopefully-soon-to-be-a-Canadian-immigrant (white) partner to be a "citizen of convenience." Despite the fact that I, for one, happen to think it would be much more convenient, aside from all else.