SOME GREAT CANADIAN MOMENTS
The movie 'Rendition' is a fine rendition of the human rights abuses that have taken place in America under the Bush administration since 911. As others have undoubtedly written reviews of this movie, I will mention only what seems to me the Oscar-worthy performance of Meryl Streep (so what's new, eh?) as the CIA executive responsible for 'giving the order' that sends 'terror' suspects to secret prisons around the globe for torture at the US's behest, since (in her words) the 'United States does not torture'. No - the US simply contracts it out, like a good globalizing corporate citizen)...She positively oozes the callousness and self-absorption of the US government representatives who see only the evil of others, not their own.....
But the movie - bearing sharp resemblance to the case of Maher Arar - the Canadian of Syrian origin who was 'renditioned' to Syria for American torture - brings to mind some great Canadian moments.
The obvious one is that of PM Stephen Harper who figuratively gave the 'finger' to the US by providing an official apology and compensation to Arar.... A gigantic gesture that one would consider uncharacteristic of a Conservative Prime Minister. For me a great Canadian moment, exceeded in recent memory only by former PM Jean Chretien's refusal to join the Bush brigade in its war-criminal invasion of Iraq.
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