Absolutely not to my knowledge, Mr. Comartin. What took place is, the Americans had Mr. Arar in detention. They called the Canadians and said, what do you have on him? Can you detain him? Can you charge him? At that point the response was no, we don't have anything to link him to al-Qaeda, we can't charge him, we don't have any evidence to charge him, we can't detain him, and we can't prevent him from coming back in. That's all they passed on.
On December 5th, 2006. See this statement in context.