This would not stop the U.S. from proceeding against a Canadian or Canada proceeding against an American under our extradition legislation. Extradition, in fact, provides you all the protections you can have under our charter and under their constitution. Our concern was this removal concept. And what was particularly disappointing, going back to the previous question, was that Mr. Arar was using a Canadian passport. One thing I could tell Canadians of dual nationality is that if you're travelling abroad as a Canadian, use your Canadian passport, certainly if you're going to your country of origin, because it gives us a bit of a leg up, especially Robert Desjardins' gang, when we can actually say, this guy was travelling on his Canadian passport. That didn't help Mr. Arar in this case, and that's why we were particularly saddened in dealing with our American colleagues.
On November 23rd, 2006. See this statement in context.