Mr. Commissioner, whatever version one takes of your testimony, that of September 28 or that of today, what is clear is that you never corrected the public record, including damaging leaks to the effect that Mr. Arar was a terrorist and “a very bad guy”, which Justice O'Connor said had a devastating effect on Maher Arar, even though you knew, by your own statement then and your own statement today—and that at least is consistent—that there was no evidence to the effect that Mr. Arar was an Islamic extremist associated with al-Qaeda. As you stated today, there was no basis to arrest him, to detain him, to refuse his entry into Canada. Yet when all these damaging leaks came out—and Mr. Justice O'Connor refers to eight damaging leaks—seriously prejudicing, have a devastating effect on Mr. Arar, you never once corrected the public record. Don't you think that as the Commissioner of the RCMP you had a responsibility, when a Canadian citizen was in a place we knew routinely tortured Canadian citizens, to correct the public record?
On December 5th, 2006. See this statement in context.