On September 28, I said to Mr. Zaccardelli that I was disturbed when I heard him say that he knew that the individual was innocent but that he had left him to rot for over a year in one of the worst jails on this planet.
What would the natural response to this question have been if, while Mr. Arar was in Syria, Commissioner Zacardelli had not yet been advised of the errors made by the RCMP and if he had discovered these facts only when he read the O'Connor report?