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The discussion is becoming repetitive. Let's just agree to disagree. I pain to point out that while the CAF training regime does include domestic and international law, applying laws objectively to a set of fact is a skill that develops independently of CAF training. Many, regrettably, appear...

For int. officers posted at embassies, does anyone know what their duties specifically entail? And would reservists be posted at embassies? I'd ask my recruiter, but there won't be any replies until after next week (owing to vacation). Thank you!

It's not only a moral question; legally, states which have agreed to and ratified the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Personsand the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Stateless have an obligation to avoid rendering persons stateless. While the Conventions contain...

Thank you for that. I would have given more milpoints if 40 wasn't my max. I will need to read these things in full before I comment on the October 2010 stipulations. I think that'll be enough from me for today (or maybe for a long time; I don't think I want to oppose prevailing views on these...

Here and in the U.S., the presumption of innocence places the burden of proof on accusers. U.S. prosecutors were required to show, without coercion and unlawful "enhanced interrogation techniques," that he had knowledge. (Yes, Canada has reverse-onus for affirmative defenses, but not in the U.S...

Age and lack of proof of voluntariness. His age coupled with the fact that there is no proof that he left Canada voluntarily, nor with the knowledge that he would be instructed to take up distorted jihad once arriving in Afghanistan. He left with his parents who were, by all accounts, extremists...

Much like leaving Canada, in the one scene depicting him making what appear to be IEDs, I don't think he was acting voluntarily. I'll wait on FJAG's insight about the last post.

Unless I am mistaken, he was inside a compound that was his family's residence. I don't mean to sound condescending, and I figure you know this, but it's not unusual for an occupying military to encounter civilians in the occupied zone. I suggest to you that, for all we know (again, there is no...

I take issue with branding him a "traitor" because you, nor I, have all the facts; nor is there really an accurate account of the events that day. Mr. Layne Morris recanted much of what he initially said in the immediate aftermath. As for leaving Canada, not one person has demonstrated to me...

I would appreciate if the merits of what I say are assessed without looking at my age. Any volunteers to, instead of digressing into a discussion of age, refute the contention that our wars were not fought for disorder and lawlessness? If not, then I am left to assume that you all concede that...

I apologize if I crossed your line, but sometimes people need reminders of what underlies the sacrifice. It's surely not disorder and lawlessness. The remark tying Khadr to IEDs is purely conjecture.

You don't care when the consequences don't immediately affect you, perhaps. But others care, and the observance of 'legalities' is necessary in an orderly and just society--one for which many have fought and scarified to preserve; and why we don poppies on our chests, erect memorials and adorn...

Highly offensive, unsavory and respect-vitiating. -100. My friend, it's not about pity. It's about your Charter entitlements, my Charter entitlements, and Khadr's Charter entitlements. He had jus soli citizenship and remained with it during his mistreatment.

I like how, when I started out here, someone here insinuated that I was a troll. :( @JollyJackstar. There is scant proof that Khadr voluntarily left Canada. There is proof, however, that he left Canada because those who had lawful custody over him-—his parents (at least one of whom had...

"Obscene" is the word I use to describe the politicization of this terrible ordeal (for which multiple governments on both sides of the houses of Parliament, and of the border, are responsible). "Obscene" is the word I use to describe the divisiveness that this has caused. Canadians should not...