Afstan: More ministerial and bureaucratic economy with the truth

This sort of thing is ridiculous and must stop (I guess CIDA can contradict "Ottawa" since its HQ is in Gatineau).

Canada has not funded the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission for years, despite the government's insistence that it plays a vital role in safeguarding captives transferred by Canada to Afghanistan's notorious prisons...

Government House Leader Peter Van Loan said Monday, that "the government of Canada has funded the Independent Human Rights Commission to the amount of $1-million."

Mr. Van Loan did not mention that the $1-million was given five years ago by the previous Liberal government...

Now doubts have emerged over another of Mr. O'Connor's assurances in light of a letter from senior Defence and Foreign Affairs officials.

Two assistant deputy ministers told MPs in December that Canada had been notifying the AIHRC of the names of transferred detainees for months. But in a March 15 letter revising their statement, they wrote that Canadian Forces didn't pass along any of the names of transferred detainees.

"No notifications, in fact, took place," until last month, the two assistant deputy ministers wrote.

Colleen Swords, assistant deputy minister of international security at Foreign Affairs, and Vincent Rigby, assistant deputy minister (policy) at National Defence jointly wrote the letter to "to clarify one portion of our testimony."..