From CBC "The federal government announced on Dec. 12, 2006, that it was launching an independent inquiry into the cases of three Canadians who allege they were tortured while imprisoned in Syria."

btw, Dickie - There are still unanswered questions in the Arar case. Hopefully the inquiry into the detention and torture of the other three will shed more light on the involvement of Canada. So far, in the Arar case, all we know is that the RCMP shared info with the U.S.A. We do not know who gave that info to the RCMP and we do not know if the U.S.A. asked Canada to take Arar before sending him to Jordan and then to Syria. We also do not know why Jordan lied about Arar.

This is not over. My hope is that the American public will champion the cause of Arar so that extraordinary rendition and outsourcing torture will end. This practice has tarnished the image of the U.S.A. worldwide and must stop if the U.S.A. ever hopes to regain its reputation as a beacon of democracy.

If this has happened to Canadian citizens, how many others are unaccounted for?