(CBC) The federal government says the Federal Court of Appeal should dismiss a high-profile ruling ordering Canada to bring home four Canadian men detained in northeastern Syrian prisons for suspected ISIS members.
Government lawyers told a Toronto court that the Federal Court made errors in its ruling. They said the court misinterpreted the Charter of Rights and Freedoms when it directed officials to “take extraordinary measures” to secure the release of the men.
Federal lawyer Anne Turley argued during the one-day hearing that the lower court’s judgment interpreted a citizen’s right to enter Canada as a right to expect the government to rescue and return citizens if they’re in trouble.
Turley called that interpretation a “wholesale expansion of the law with broad-ranging implications.”
