Canadian Response To Omar Khadr
A series of visits by Foreign Affairs officials led Karim Amégan and Suneeta Millington to report that Khadr was "salvageable" if allowed to return to Canadian society, but that keeping him in the prison would risk radicalizing him. As of January 2009, 64% of Canadians supported repatriating Khadr to Canada, up from 41% in June 2007.
The Wikileaks Cablegate disclosures revealed that the Canadian government's Washington-backed decision not to seek the repatriation of Khadr, made it "politically impossible" for the country to take in the Uighur former detainees the US was unable to return to China. The Wikileaks cables show strong US interest in Canadian reaction to Khadr's case, and the director of Canada's intelligence agency is reported expressing his belief that the release of DVD footage of Khadr's interrogation, in which he is shown crying, would lead to "knee-jerk anti-Americanism" and "paroxysms of moral outrage, a Canadian specialty".
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