This is unbelievable:

Officials from the United States offered to return Maher Arar to Canada before they deported him to Syria, but Ottawa turned down the offer, a senator says. Liberal Senator Pierre De Bané testified Wednesday that the U.S. offered to send Maher Arar to Canada, but only under certain restrictions. Liberal Senator Pierre De Bané told the Arar inquiry on Wednesday morning that he learned of the offer at a Foreign Affairs briefing.