Nancy Huston endorses our Petition! – ‘Canada’s Obligation to Omar Khadr’

A sincere thank you to Nancy Huston for endorsing our petition!

Ms. Huston, a Calgary-born author and essayist, winner of Governor General Award for French language fiction, officer of the Order of Canada in 2005 and chevalier of l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France believes Canada has an obligation to remedy Omar for the suffering he endured:

“Omar Khadr is one of several people whose stories have shocked me to the core.
I’ll mention just two other examples - Mourad Benchellali, also mired down in a legal morass after having been unjustly detained for yearsat Guantanamo (see his “Le piège de l’aventure”, Editions Laffont,Paris, 2016), and Maher Arar, a Canadian national arrested, detained and tortured simply for having travelled to see family in Syria (seehis wife Monia Mazigh’s book “Hope and Despair”, McClelland& Stewart,Toronto, 2008).

We teach our children to apologize when they make mistakes that have harmful effects on others. Apparently, we’re not supposed to make the same demands for basic morality on our political & legal systems as on our kids.

The miracle is the beautiful light in Omar Khadr’s face.I don’t know who lit the fire of intelligence and compassion that burns there, but it’s obvious that this young man’s energies could find a better outlet than fighting endless legal battles to be acknowledged as the innocent person he is.We can never right the wrongs that were done Omar Khadr … what we can do is clear the way to give this amazing man the future he deserves.”

Please sign and share our petition. Call on the federal government to write the wrongs that were done Omar Khadr.

 

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Thank you!

The Free Omar Khadr Now Committee


2 comments on “Nancy Huston endorses our Petition! – ‘Canada’s Obligation to Omar Khadr’

  1. Pingback: Yann Martel endorses our Petition! – ‘Canada’s Obligation to Omar Khadr’ | FREE OMAR

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