LAWS 3306 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Pierre Laporte, Maher Arar, Japanese-Canadian Internment
19 Feb 2014
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Mandatory minimums stiffer drug sentences = worrisome: these tougher sentences will crowd the system. Group of cia operatives and italian intelligence whisked a man off to egypt where he was tortured, and apparently, he was never a proper suspect. He is now living in egypt and is suing the cia agents. There are no circumstances for which torture can ever be justified. Especially in a country like canada which signed an international treaty that condemned the practice [of torture] Statistics: half of all americans felt that the torture of suspected terrorists was justified, bbc survey of 20,000 people in 25 countries last october found that more than 1 out of 3 would support torture. The liberation du quebec movement in 1970s was clearly an act of terrorism. Bank holdups, murders by gunfire, violent deaths by. Flq kidnapped pierre laporte, the deputy premier and minister of labor of quebec: he was kidnapped and assassinated.
