Canada relents!

Canada recalls torture manual
UPI
Published: Jan. 20, 2008
OTTAWA, Jan. 20 (UPI) -- Canada's government has ordered a manual defining torture rewritten because it included U.S.-run and Israeli sites as possible torture locations.

Foreign Affairs Minister Maxime Bernier ordered the "Torture Awareness Workshop Reference Materials" -- a manual providing legal definitions of torture -- rewritten because of references to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; the United States and Israel, The Toronto Star said Sunday.

"I regret the embarrassment caused by the public disclosure of the manual used in the department's torture awareness training. It contains a list that wrongly includes some of our closest allies," Bernier said in a statement.

I suppose this is good news - the Canadian government no longer officially proclaims us torturers.

Now, if we would only stop torturing detainees in the GWOT!