Statement made on 16 September 2009 by Senator Roméo Dallaire
Hon. Roméo Antonius Dallaire:
Honourable senators, I would like to take this opportunity to greet the new members of the Senate. I hope that the Leader of the Government in the Senate has provided you with a copy of Protecting Canadian Democracy, which I received when I first came to the Senate. It makes for excellent bedtime reading. The book demystifies the Senate and helps new senators understand the environment they are going to be working in.
Honourable senators, it was reported that the Minister of Foreign Affairs wanted to go after those specific individuals in the al Qaeda organization who abducted our diplomat Bob Fowler and to bring them to justice here in Canada according to our justice system and within our laws. That is certainly one position to take, but it is difficult to understand why we would want to do that while there is a Canadian who is also accused of doing some evil things and whom we do not want to bring back. In other words, we will take these other guys, but not our own Canadian to sort out his situation in this country. Does the Honourable Leader of the Government in the Senate have a flow of logic regarding that situation?
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