Former Guantanamo Bay inmates still a hot topic, in Canada

I really hope that Ayub Mohammed can have a normal life one day, but it's also critical that the national security agencies are allowed to weigh in on cases like this.

Ayub Mohammed, an ethnic Uyghur from China who was in the prison camp for six years before the U.S. decided he was not a terrorist, met a Canadian woman online and married her. The two now have three children, all of whom are Canadian citizens, and Mohammed wants to move to Canada from Albania to live with his new family in Montreal.Photograph courtesy of Wikipedia

Opinion

BY PHIL GURSKI

June 3, 2019

OTTAWA—Canada had nothing to do with the U.S. decision to use the anachronistic Guantanamo Bay military camp in Cuba as a highly controversial—if not internationally illegal—detention centre for suspected terrorists. That people alleged to have been linked to terrorist groups were shipped from...

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