George Bush’s puppet today apologized to Arar and agreed to an $8.9 Million compensation package to the Canadian who was seized in the United States by the FBI and then deported to Syria. At the same time he was deported, the FBI and State Department lied and misled Canadian Authorities on his whereabouts, and status. It was from the Syrians that Canada learned its citizen was there, in Jail.

And we are paying for our mistakes a compensation of $8.9 Million.

While the RCMP screwed up big time here, and there is no doubt in my mind that Arar deserves the compensation for the torture and horror he endured along with his family, I wonder why Stephen Harper is not demanding compensation from the United States, not just for Arar but for Canada as well.

It cost us, the taxpayers, to secure the eventual release of Mr Arar and bring him home. All citizens deserve that protection and effort, and yet it was due directly to the lies and deceit of the United States of America that made us have to endure that cost. Where is OUR COMPENSATION?

Prime Minister Stephen Harper again called on the U.S. government to remove Maher Arar from its no-fly and terrorist watchlists. (story)

Let me see if I have this right. A Canadian is seized on a layover in the States, the FBI secretly deports him to Syria, not Canada, he gets tortured, and our country does the right thing, the honorable thing but the United States still refuses to comment. Worse they still list this man on their ‘No Fly’ list. I do not understand that nonsense, but then as the wife says, Yankee Doodle Dandy… though that doesn’t help the taxpayers who spent resources to secure Mr Arar’s release not to mention the inquiry costs. Yet George Bush and his Storm Troopers continue to bully the world, and our Prime Minister does nothing. I suppose this is what happens when you are joined at the hip to a bigot like Harper is to Bush.

Mr Harper, where is the better relations you promised us during the Election?

So far I see nothing coming from it. The soft wood lumber is a sellout, and our lumber industry loses nearly a billion dollars that was paid to the Bush Administration. Passports for Americans are now needed for them to return home from visiting Canada, something you said would be delayed and perhaps even disbanded. A Canadian gets deported and tortured and still he is on a No Fly List and no compensation, not even a god damn apology has been coming from your friends and cohorts, the Bush Administration. So tell me Mr Harper, where is the improved relations? Or did you really mean that instead of fighting for our rights like Chretien and Martin did, you simply SURRENDERED?