Canadian lawyer Dennis Edney, who played a big role in the release of Omar Khadr from Guantanamo Bay prison, lived his life standing up to those who commit large crimes supposedly on our behalf. His selfless dedication so should be embossed on our courtrooms’ walls.
It is an easy strategy to transfer blame onto other nations when your own failures are so evident. Meanwhile, we stumble in the dark with unverified data leaked by the responsible Canadian agencies, seeking to transfer their own failures far from our shores.
Colonialism and racism are alive and well in Canada, and the police’s refusal to search for the remains of Indigenous women in a Winnipeg dump is the latest evidence.
Even within the limited requirements of the Extradition Act, a Canadian judge concluded in 2011 that the French authorities’ evidence was ‘convoluted, very confusing, with conclusions that are suspect.’
Over 73 years of investigations, commissions, and inquiries, the RCMP has seen few apparent changes to the way it operates.
Russia’s 2022 invasion represented a blatant violation of the established global standard on the inviolability of states.
For the United Kingdom and those of us in Canada, who are constitutionally connected to the marriage of monarchs and democracy, it is a time for reflection on the validity or the utility of that system.
There is an urgent need to create some measure of certainty in the representation of Indigenous people in the central power structures.
