Canada torture issue in Afghanistan

Emails sent to then-foreign affairs minister Peter MacKay's office expressed alarm over the treatment of Afghan detainees on behalf of the International Red Cross Committee; as early as 2006, senior diplomat Richard Colvin was conveying distressing information from the most direct and trusted of sources, the Red Cross.
Two emails that reached MacKay's office outlined a litany of Red Cross concerns, including worries about the treatment of detainees, Canadian tardiness in reporting their detention to the international agency, lack of proper information to identify the prisoners and one pointed reminder of Canadian responsibility.