The Amnesty International and B.C. Civil Liberties judicial review that is pending before the Federal Court is a matter of national importance. That lawsuit seeks to prohibit the transfer of detainees to Afghanistan or any other country where there is a substantial risk of torture.
The fact that the Attorney General has been instructed by this government to employ the national security exemption of section 38 of the Canada Evidence Act-- actually, I believe it's section 38.01--and has instructed witnesses on cross-examination to not answer very basic questions on their affidavits, citing national security, is undeniably an obstruction of that lawsuit.
I repeat what I said before. In all the cases I have either participated in or watched closely, I have never seen the national security exemptions being used more heavily than in this case.
This is not a frivolous case. Amnesty International has a Nobel Peace Prize. They probably do have a legitimate interest in human rights around the world, I would say. That they are being obstructed in their legal proceedings by the Attorney General, acting at the instruction of this government, is absolutely unconscionable.