A judicial commission of inquiry last September found that the RCMP passed along false and inflammatory intelligence reports about the Canadian Maher Arar to U.S. agencies, describing him as a Muslim extremist. This information was "very likely" used by the Americans to deport Mr. Arar to Syria, where he was imprisoned for almost a year and tortured, the inquiry said.
Arar received an official apology from the Prime Minister and an $11.5-million compensation package from the federal government -- the largest legal settlement of its kind in Canadian history.
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