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Yeah, About That Dissent You Were Expressing

by Scott H. Payne

The newest troubling twist in the Canadian Afghan detainee torture scandal is that the chair of the Military Police Complaints Commission that was investigating Colvin’s allegation and who blasted government for, “stonewalling the inquiry by withholding the requested documents, ” (sound familiar? yeah…) will not have his contract renewed  next month despite wanting to stay on to finish his work on inquiring into the issue.

Coincidentally, as is noted in the article, Tinsley’s termination comes at the same time as news that Paul Kennedy who has been critical of government around RCMP use of taser guns, specifically surrounding the death of Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski at the Vancouver International Airport in 2007 and also wants to stay on to finish his work, will not have his contract renewed.

But I’m sure the Harper government has perfectly valid reasoning for choosing not to renew the contracts of two commission chairs both of whom have been critical of government and stood to write damaging reports on high profile issues…

Right?

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2 comments

1 Cascadian { 11.27.09 at 10:43 pm }

Good job on the blogging Scott. It’s nice to see quality stuff on Canada. There’s an unmet market for that as far as I’m concerned. Keep up the pressure.

2 Mike Schilling { 11.28.09 at 4:19 pm }

Maybe they can go to Texas and fill the vacant spots on the Forensic Science Commission.