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Afghanistan committee No, but I have to say that the lawyers are clear that it was more an agreement in the form of a memorandum of understanding than a binding legal treaty of that nature; it was not intended to be that, and I don't think any of the other agreements that were entered into were done a
May 12th, 2010Committee meeting
William Graham
Afghanistan committee It was government to government, as I believe I tried to explain.
May 12th, 2010Committee meeting
William Graham
Afghanistan committee Yes, sir, I think that's a fair statement.
May 12th, 2010Committee meeting
William Graham
Afghanistan committee That's drawing a very long bow.
May 12th, 2010Committee meeting
William Graham
Afghanistan committee Thank you very much.
May 12th, 2010Committee meeting
William Graham
Afghanistan committee First of all, when I said there were no detainee transfers, I did not say “never”. Everyone knows about the matter involving Mr. Eggleton and the JTF2 transfer in 2002. It was a cause célèbre. Everyone knows about it. So I am not denying that. I believe there were some other occ
May 12th, 2010Committee meeting
William Graham
Afghanistan committee This is getting a little bit like Chinese water torture.
May 12th, 2010Committee meeting
William Graham
Afghanistan committee Do I have any prisoner's rights here?
May 12th, 2010Committee meeting
William Graham
Afghanistan committee I'm very proud of my replacement. He's a great member.
May 12th, 2010Committee meeting
William Graham
Afghanistan committee No, no. Sometimes I would receive very sensitive documents--for example, that were classified. Unless I said, “Look, I have to see that”, they would be redacted. So they'd be redacted at the level of the security officials. I don't recall ever challenging it, because I don't thi
May 12th, 2010Committee meeting
William Graham
Afghanistan committee I have no idea what the practice is today.
May 12th, 2010Committee meeting
William Graham
Afghanistan committee Yes, I'm assuming that redaction is done by officials in the department and not by ministerial staff acting under the instructions of the minister. If that were done, I would say that would not in any way be in conformity with what was done or practised when we were there. Anythi
May 12th, 2010Committee meeting
William Graham
Afghanistan committee Well, if I said there were no political considerations in this, I don't think you'd believe me, Mr. Chairman, and I don't think you should. I mean, of course politics are part of what motivates us who are in politics. That's a given. But I think the balance of what we were tryi
May 12th, 2010Committee meeting
William Graham
Afghanistan committee It certainly created an additional pressure, if you like, on the Government of Afghanistan and gave Canadians more of an authority to do it. I don't disagree it was an improvement on the agreement. I said the agreement was not perfect, and I accept the fact that it was capable of
May 12th, 2010Committee meeting
William Graham
Afghanistan committee Well, it's not my concern, because I don't think it goes to the legitimacy of the agreement whatsoever. It's a memorandum of understanding that was entered into in proper and due form between...that has just as much effect by its signature in the way it was signed as if it had be
May 12th, 2010Committee meeting
William Graham