Prime Minister Stephen Harper issued an apology to Maher Arar, Monia Mazigh and their family for the role Canadian officials may have played in their ordeal and announced completion of mediation. The response followed Arar’s detention and torture in Syria and the public inquiry. It represented a concrete accountability outcome of sustained campaigning, although a Canadian apology did not settle every question about US conduct or wider security policy.
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Canada’s apology to Maher Arar was also a formal apology issued by the United States.
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It was an apology by the Canadian government. It did not settle all questions about US responsibility.