Harper says government is considering appealPrime Minister Stephen Harper is required to press the United States for the return of Omar Khadr to Canada to "comply with a principle of fundamental justice," a Federal Court judge ruled Thursday.
Unmoved, Harper said the government may try to overturn the judge's decision.
"The facts, in our judgment, have not changed," he told MPs during question period. "We will be looking at the decision very carefully and, obviously, considering an appeal."
Justice James O'Reilly ruled in favour of Khadr's charter challenge of the Canadian government's decision not to request his repatriation from the U.S. detention centre in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
"The ongoing refusal of Canada to request Mr. Khadr's repatriation to Canada offends a principle of fundamental justice and violates Mr. Khadr's rights," O'Reilly said in his 43-page decision.
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