[ April 19, 2024 ]
“Abdelrazik alleges he was tortured in Sudanese custody and the federal government violated his constitutional right to come home….CSIS claimed Abdelrazik was an al-Qaeda operative and a danger to national security. In 2011, Abdelrazik was removed from a UN watch list of suspected al-Qaeda or Taliban associates.”
Yet he was in prison for nearly six years. Apparently he claims he was unjustly accused and wrongly imprisoned. That is a matter for the courts to settle. But meanwhile, he wants a massive payout from the Canadian government, likely because he saw how much money Trudeau handed to the terrorist Omar Khadr, and wants to get in on the gravy train. But even Trudeau seems to have wised up this time, and the Canadian government has walked away from the talks. They know the hit they’d take at the polls if they paid millions to this man.
“Ottawa ditches mediation talks in $27M Abdelrazik lawsuit,” by Murray Brewster, CBC News, April 17, 2018 (thanks to Mark):
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A sweeping $27-million lawsuit against the federal government brought by a Sudanese-Canadian who was detained overseas — and not allowed to return home for six years — is headed back to court, CBC News has learned.
The Justice Department had been involved in settlement talks with Abousfian Abdelrazik but abruptly walked away from a recently scheduled mediation session, said Abdelrazik’s lawyer.
“They said they could not provide us with any reasons,” said Paul Champ. “They were looking more at the polls than at their principles, and, unfortunately, I think that’s probably why they withdrew.”
Contacted by CBC News Monday, CSIS did not respond and a spokesperson for the justice minister referred questions to Public Safety.
“The government does not comment on settlement negotiations or ongoing court matters,” Scott Bardsley, a spokesperson for Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale, said Monday night.
Opening arguments in the lawsuit, which personally names former Conservative foreign affairs minister Lawrence Cannon, will now take place in Federal Court on Sept. 14.
Torture claims
Abdelrazik spent nearly six years in prison or forced exile and only managed to return to Canada in 2009 after the Federal Court ordered the government of former prime minister Stephen Harper to bring him home.
Abdelrazik alleges he was tortured in Sudanese custody and the federal government violated his constitutional right to come home.
Cannon is personally named because he refused to issue an emergency passport to Abdelrazik, contrary to the advice of Canadian government officials.
The former minister declined comment on the lawsuit and directed CBC News to government lawyers.
CSIS claimed Abdelrazik was an al-Qaeda operative and a danger to national security.
In 2011, Abdelrazik was removed from a UN watch list of suspected al-Qaeda or Taliban associates.
Last summer, the Trudeau government paid a $10.5 million breach-of-rights settlement in the case involving Omar Khadr, a former detainee at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Not long after that deal became public, Abdelrazik was approached by federal lawyers who asked if there was interest in resolving his case.
The two sides formally agreed to take the mediation route in September 2017 and met throughout the fall to hammer out the terms.
At the same time last fall, Ottawa agreed to settle lawsuits involving Abdullah Almalki, Ahmad El Maati and Muayyed Nureddin, all of whom were wrongfully accused of links to terrorism and tortured in Syria. They were collectively paid $31.25 million.
Settlement discussions with Abdelrazik progressed to a full-fledged mediation conference, which was scheduled for between Feb. 28 and March 2.
Lawsuit settlements went over like ‘a lead balloon’“[The government] withdrew the day before it was to start,” said Champ.
An Angus Reid poll, conducted in the aftermath of the Khadr settlement, found an overwhelming majority of Canadians opposed the Khadr deal and thought it would have been better for the federal government to fight it out in court.
Champ said he believes there’s a whiff of politics in the decision to pull the plug on mediation a day before it was set to begin.
“I think there’s no doubt the political calculus is there would be some blowback, as they experienced with the Khadr settlement,” he said.
A former CSIS analyst who worked counter-terrorism cases at CSIS and Public Safety said previous lawsuit settlements in cases where links to terror groups were alleged went over like a “lead balloon” with the public.
“It was terrible PR for the government,” said Phil Gurski, now retired and the author of The Threat From Within: Recognizing Al Qaeda-Inspired Radicalization and Terrorism in the West.
“The government looked like it was kowtowing to terrorists, and I think the government took a lesson on that.”…
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22 Comments
5 years ago
Justin Trudeau can tolerate muslims killing Canadians but will absolutely not tolerate Canadians criticizing muslims.
“All muslim terrorists deserve human rights”
– Justin trudeau
5 years ago
Reply to
Gator Hogg
Prime Moron Jihad Trudope only wants one thing for the Islamic Republic of Canadastan: the conversion of the entire population into unemployed potheads.
5 years ago
Reply to
Gator Hogg
Left/Liberals can only destroy countries like this Left/Liberal utopia http://tinyurl.com/yavxfl4m
…where its Gun Free , govt terrorises citizens and they hunt cats and dogs for food !
5 years ago
Reply to
Gator Hogg
Canadian citizens only are allowed to pay excessively high taxes to subsidize islam in Canada.
5 years ago
This terrorist wasn’t pretty enough for Trudeau to settle with…
5 years ago
“They know the hit they’d take at the polls if they paid millions to this man.”
too late the terrorist leanings are obvious to most Canadians by nor, only parasites, deviants, and feminazis do not care about the tidal wave of rape and death that is so dear to those of the pagan islamic “faith” in their homosexual profit. these will continue to vote for mohamed Turdo.
5 years ago
Reply to
Kenek
WTF i am sick of this BULLSHIT GOVT GIVING AWAY MY GOD DAMNED TAX DOLLARS TO THESE PARASITES
5 years ago
“They know the hit they’d take at the polls if they paid millions to this man.”
too late the terrorist leanings are obvious to most Canadians by nor, only parasites, deviants, and feminazis do not care about the tidal wave of rape and death that is so dear to those of the pagan islamic “faith” in their homosexual profit. these will continue to vote for mohamed Turdo.
5 years ago
Why did we know this would happen ? It’s just like the government paying a ransom, once paid more victims will be grabbed. Only Trudeau would consider paying this, anyone else would never pay regardless what some damn court decided !
5 years ago
The “Sudanese-Canadian” description of this clown says it all. Sudan is the place he’ll live like a king after he gets his Canadian payout from Trudeau.
5 years ago
This is how the liberals are introducing islam to Canada, by buying one muslim at a time for millions of dollars. This is no where close to being over, the introductory offer has yet to be made.
5 years ago
That will be all taken care of along with a full apology and maybe prison time for those bad people who insulted this poor murderer so badly.
We ( the Canadian citizens ) will only find out abouit it months down the road coupled with some feminist girly boy logic as to it would have cost to much to allow this POS to rot.
5 years ago
Don’t ever, for one second, ever think that justhine will ever “smarten up”. He’s too stupid to get any smarter. He will do a backroom deal to get this terrorist his cash. Also, never trust anything coming from the CBC. It’s nothing but a mouthpiece for trudeau and the lieberal government.
5 years ago
If we have to pay this guy I am going to loose it.
5 years ago
And the Pope shills for bringing in more of these into christian lands http://tinyurl.com/popeofwolves
while he lives behind secure 40 ft walls and 24 hour security !
5 years ago
Reply to
Suresh
Always thought it very strange that the pope want’s to import a cult that is so very up front in declaring “Death to Christens”.
5 years ago
Reply to
Suresh
once upon a time the pope was a Christian, what that does that make all the Catholics now?
5 years ago
Ok Sudan and Syria. Why were they there? Stupid PM.
5 years ago
Canada is like an exact reflection of Western Europe, and from the looks of it, they are sadly bound to share the same fate. 🙁
