Those concerns are fundamental. It's instructive I think to remind ourselves of the experience of Guantanamo Bay. It's a different detention regime, but many of those individuals are of course individuals who were apprehended on the battlefield in Afghanistan amidst vague, unspecified allegations that they were horrific individuals responsible for committing terrorism or aiding terrorists. Again, no legal regime was put in place to deal with those cases, no charges were brought against them, and there was no access to lawyers--a lot of the same things we're concerned about in Afghanistan.
With many of those cases, yes, there are still some against whom there seem to be allegations of some credence, and some sort of legal process, a highly problematic legal process, will be launched eventually. But large numbers of those individuals have simply been released, let go--not after 72 hours or two weeks but after several years of detention in very harsh, difficult prison conditions in Guantanamo Bay.
The possibility that some of those same scenarios are playing out with respect to prisoners being taken by Canadian Forces, transferred to Afghan custody, and held, again in circumstances where we don't know if any charges are being brought against them.... We're not being told the status of the cases. We're being told it's actually secret, and something that we can't know. They're not being given access to any legal representation of any kind. The oversight and monitoring mechanisms are inadequate to be able to follow what's going on in the cases.
That leads you back almost to the same scenario.