As CP has reported, “the Federal Court of Canada ruled on Monday that the government has seven days to come up with a list of remedies to its breach of Mr. Khadr’s constitutional rights.” The report of that decision by Mr. Justice Russell Zinn was published in The Globe and Mail yesterday. Regrettably, the CP report omitted one salient fact that appeared in the Ottawa Citizen the same day:
“Zinn noted his own past statement that bringing Khadr to Canada is ‘the only alternative remedy I can see that can potentially cure the breach’ of his rights, but he added it may be that the government or Khadr can fashion other remedies’.”
In other words, notwithstanding the refusal of the Supreme Court of Canada to order Mr. Khadr’s repatriation – an outcome that many Khadr supporters have been urging – persuading this particular judge will be no easy task. Don’t be surprised, therefore, if the government takes the matter out of Mr. Zinn’s hands by appealing his decision.
