That shows complete contempt for Canada's international human rights obligations. All of the men who are held under security certificates in Canada right now, whether they're in detention or are released on restrictions, face serious, well-documented risks of severe torture in Algeria, in Morocco, in Egypt, in Syria.
To say that there's a freedom to choose to head off to a torture chamber is an irresponsible statement from a government minister, and it flies in the face of some of the most serious human rights commitments that this nation has made.