Here's another issue no party leader is talking about in this election campaign: Should Canada's federal government aid and abet torture? Unfortunately, this isn't an academic question. I wish it were. But there have been too many disturbing reports that indicate this country is complicit in torturing people that one government or another thinks are terrorists. The controversy over the use of Canadian airports by CIA-leased planes is the most recent. Europe is in an uproar over reports that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency is shipping terror suspects to torture centres in countries such as Poland. Now, it seems that some of these planes stopped off to refuel in Canada before heading across the Atlantic.

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