Answer me yes or no, Commissioner. When Mr. Arar was being held in a Syrian jail, did you know, firstly, that he had no links whatsoever to any terrorist organizations and secondly, that he had most likely been sent to one of the worst prisons in the world on the strength of erroneous information passed along by the RCMP to US authorities? Did you know this?
On December 5th, 2006. See this statement in context.