One-fifth of Canadians support torture to save lives

posted on October 22, 2006 | in Category Canada | PermaLink

Original author: Don Butler, CanWest News Service
Source: The National Post
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Date: October 19, 2006

OTTAWA - One-fifth of Canadians and more than a third of Americans think governments should be allowed to use torture if doing so could extract information that saves innocent lives from terrorists, says a new poll.

Overall, though, a solid majority of people around the world oppose the use of torture under any circumstances, according to the poll, done by GlobeScan for the BBC.

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