When the Americans decided to send Mr. Arar to Syria, it was known that that country was using torture to force people to speak. Why did the Americans not advise our minister? Why didn't they take into account the fact that they were ruining a life? A year in the life of Mr. Arar and his family has been ruined.
I am a mother and if my husband had been caught in that area, I would have been very worried. What should the U.S. Government have done to inform Canada that it had made a mistake? Was it misplaced vanity?