In-class assignment 3: Fredericton

Question 1: Maher Arar was arrested in New York because he is a Canadian with a dual citizenship in both Syria and Canada. He was imprisoned in the United States and then deported back to Syria where he was tortured. This raises many questions within the Canadian context about how the United States and Canada intended to track their investigations regarding international terrorism. Most importantly, questions about whether or not both the US and Canadian governments ignored Maher Arar’s rights as a Canadian citizen to due to the law. They mostly ignored his rights because one of those…