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Compensation, perhaps, but $10 million dollars plus legal fees is way over the top. It is unlikely this man would have earned even a small portion of this in his entire lifetime let alone for one year spent in a Syrian jail cell. Wronged he may have been but to the tune of $10 million dollars of MY hard earned tax dollars? Give me a break!

The fact that some of you question Mr. Arar's "Activities", and saying that he is "laughing all the way to the bank" is preposterous beyond words.

Marlene Boyer, your comments on this board are unbacked and uneducated. If you were deported to a foreign country and tortured for 10 months, I am sure that you would feel very differently.

Chris Clark, Mr. Arar was deported to a foreign country because of bad information provided by the Canadian Government, and the Canadian government represents the Canadian people. Therefore, sadly, the Canadian government (and in turn the Canadian people) are responsible for what happened.

10M sounds like a lot, but for a person who can no longer work, who has lost several years of his life, and who's family has suffered a great deal, 10M doesn't begin to erase the wrongs committed by this governement.

People who still ask questions should refer to the report. The questions have been answered, and blame has been awarded to the RCMP.

Let's move on with our lives, and allow Mr. Arar and his family to do the same. Unfortunately for him, there are far too many "fellow Canadians" who harbor racist and discriminatory thoughts, even towards other Canadians.

What a shame.

As one Canadian to another Canadian, I too take responsibility for the wrong that was done to Mahar and to our Canadian Muslim Community. I'm sad we in Canada have been suckered by hateful media pundits in America that have stereotyped Muslim Canadians into something they're not. Being white and led by fear mongering is part of the problem as always.

I wish for Maher and his family all the best and I hope we can learn from this terrible injustice. I'm confident our American neighbors to the south will some day realize the same mistake and admit to the injustice and grief they caused Maher and his family.

I find myself agreeing with most of the previous writers. He definately deserves some compensation, but I feel that the amount is way excessive.Perhaps something on the order of $50.k per year to age 65 would be more in line, plus training costs etc. He is now at university and that should have been covered.

Also the legal fees need to be looked at. Are we paying his lawyers for their fight against the US? Those costs need to be paid out of his own pockett.We have no control over their laws etc.

Are there other suits pending in this same vein?
Do we need a mechanism to handle this?
I would be interested in hearing from Liam regading his thoughts on future cases.

Now that Canadians have apologized and tendered taxpayer dollars in compensation, Canada's new government needs to take steps to recover the twelve-plus millions from those responsible for feeding lies about Mr Arar to US authorities.

This settlement is a logical extension of the grievance culture, fueled by media and partisan politics, that has been allowed to develop in this country. The present government is reaping the whirlwind created by twelve years of the Liberal Party buying its way out of trouble with taxpayer's money, whilst also drawing what it would no doubt see as petty cash from the public accounts.

The Arars have very skilfully played this system. Remember Mrs Arar ran for a federal seat under the NDP, and that party has been the loudest voice proclaimng the need for a huge settlement (too late, says McDough today). There is sufficient doubt about many of the details of the Arar story that it should have been tested in court, not negotiated as an out-of-court settlement.

Despite what many have said on this topic here, the Americans still have doubts. They are not "homicidal thugs": their checks and balances are at least as stringent as ours. Arar is a citizen of Syria. Syria wanted to question him: why? The US believes there are grounds to keep him out of their country: what are these? The RCMP had some suspicions about him: what were these?

Collectively, we as Canadians paid Arar 40 cents each to send the message that we as Canadians stand for human rights and against torture. We need to keep sending the message that we will not stand for Canadian citizens being taken off a plane and sent to Syria to be tortured for 375 days.

Those saying that tax payers should not have to pay for something that they "had nothing to do with" are a bunch of cop-outs. Our government is complacent in having Arar tortured and our government is paying its due cost. Thats a little thing called: DEMOCRACY. Maybe you've heard about it.

Arar may have been treated unfairly but I do not feel he is owed compensation as given.He has receieved apologies and perhaps should be compensated for lost work time.We seem to be having trouble distinguishing friend from foe and steps must be taken to prevent this ever again.

Seems everyday, some one wants compensation for mistakes that have been made in the past.Our early immigrants came to Canada to build a new life for their families and left their past behind.Todays immigrants want it all and many have little respect for Canada their adopted country.

Will money ever bring back Arars time spent in Syria, no, so why are we trying to make it! I belive that the canadian gouvenement should pay legal fees, training to bring Arar back into the work force, and an modest sum to support his family while he is doing it, not 10.5 million.

So with this plan he will "get on with his life" not retire early.

I think that the Government did the right thing. I would as a taxpayer like to know why the incompetents in the RCMP have not been fired and or disciplined down to Janitor over what happened?

It seems to me we the people of this country should see some justice done too!

$10 million for Arar, ... how many more millions will it be for Almalki, El Maati and Nurredin?

How come this amount is so much more significant than compensation recently paid to Canadian aboriginals who were sexually abused by staff at residential schools?

What if the RCMP were to err on the side of caution and allow a suspected terrorist to remain in Canada and that person were to organize an attack on civilians in this country; would the Government rush to compensate the families of the victims for the death of their loved ones?

How many millions of $$$ would we be talking about if an attack similar to the London or Madrid bombings were to take place in Montreal, Vancouver or Toronto?

The difference with the Arar case and the other incidences of government mishandling, like Milgaard and Marshall, or even that of the tainted blood, is that the RCMP knew he was innocent before he was sent to Syria and they let him get sent there.

That would be the equivalent of the prosecution knowing that the suspect was innocent and still going ahead with the conviction, or the government knowing that the blood was tainted but still injecting it into people anyway.

Of course the money handed out is going to be more. This wasn't a simple mistake, this was knowingly sending an innocent Canadian to be imprisoned in Syria. That is absolutely appalling.

I bear no personal grudge towards Mr.Arar or any other victims of injustice partly at the hands of the Canadian gov't who receive compensation.

At the same time, I must admit that I am deeply angered that such large amounts of tax dollars have to be paid out. Why is it that ordinary Canadians are paying the price for blunders not of their own making?

And how do we decide what amount of money is fair compensation? $10 million dollars is a LOT of money to go to one person, no matter how much they suffered.

Perhaps there is no other reasonable way, but don't expect me to be happy about it.

I do not know how to calculate what is a fair financial compensation in this matter, and I don't think there is really any specific "pro forma' to do so.

What I do know is that I thank goodness that the current federal government moved relatively quickly to come to a financial conclusion.

let's move on and do a better job of handling international security relations in the future.

Joy:You say we must learn from this so that it never happens again.Very true,but in order to do that,we need to have ALL the facts.

And we don't.Why is that? How can you justify our government giving 12+ million dollars to Mr.Arar without having to answer to all canadians? No government should have that kind of power.

As taxpayers and honest citizens,we see far too much of this in government.I have followed this affair closely and waited a long time for it to be resolved.

I think it is only begining.And it is also true that our courts have put people in prison for life by mistake and never compensated with an amount like this!I for one will continue to question this settlement until I have some answers.

I would hope others will do the same.Our government needs to be held accountable for this faux pas and heads need to roll.I respect your opinion,but to call those of us who do not agree with this settlement callous is unfair.

Have you noticed how many people on here DO NOT agree with it? Are they all wrong? No,they are not.They are simply fed up with this kind of in your face arrogance by our politicians.They are the ones who are wrong!!Perhaps we should be asking what it is they are trying to bury?

The callousness of some of the comments here is beyond words.

Maher Arar owes no thanks to us, the people who let him be packed off to Syria. He deserves peace of mind and all the humility we can muster.

Please think about what you are saying and put yourself in his place for a moment. Remember that we are Canadians. We believe in human rights. We are not Americans who pretend our hands are clean by outsourcing torture.

We MUST learn from this so that it never happens to another Canadian. We MUST avoid becoming a culture of paranoid bullies. World peace depends on it.

A ludicrous amount of Our Tax Dollars. Surely, $1,000.000.00 plus solicitor client costs of $150,000.00 max would have been more than adequate.. if of couse he did in fact suffer abuse from his own countrymen as is alleged.

According to our Prime Minister, this was a reasonable amount. Really, without the benefit of medical reports or corroborated FACTS, that he in fact suffer pain and injuries, I think not.

My heavens, we have Canadian citizens who have been rendered quadriplegics and worse supported by qualified medical people, with negligence clearly established, that have not, by any stretch of imagination, received $12.5 million inclusive of costs.

Our Government has yet to conclude settlement with Mr Arar's, brother who apparently lost his trucking business.

Plus the coming Inquiry for the other three gentleman, who were also flown east and allegedly battered by their own countryman?

I sincerely believe, our government should waive the next hearing, save a few million and apply a portion of that saving to settle the remaining aforementioned four.

This would be far more prudent and fiscally responsible. Then get on with more important government business.

In regard to the Maher Arar case, I am perplexed by the compensation package that was negotiated for him and accepted by the government.

Yes, Arar suffered mentally and/or physically by being wrongfully imprisoned and tortured by his own former countrymen. He was probably lucky to be released alive in order to return to Canada.

With his compensation package of 10.5 million dollars, I think he should be able to pay his own legal fees. With only $5,000,000.00 a prudent investor could live out his life with his family without holding a day job.

I think about the many Canadians that have been wrongfully imprisoned for many years and later proven "not guilty" because of new evidence. Will they also be offered a $10.5 million settlement????

I expect a personal thank-you for we taxpayers from Maher Arar for his more than generous settlement is in order.

Over the years there have been so many cases of wrong doing, medical mistakes, people locked up for 20 years and later to be found innocent, blood scandels, thalydamide victims who suffer though life with no arms and legs etc.

All these victims didn't receive fair compensation. All victims should be compensated adequately but how much?

In this case, would the money be better spent to do good things in society for example to help all those who are poor, dying of Cancer or Diabetes rather than to make a few individuals wealthy?

The question of compensation is not an easy one. Why do some people in the USA receive millions for a medical mistake and the same mistake in Canada only gets the victim $5,000 if any?

It's a given that mistakes will happen and sometimes cannot be prevented. Maybe it is better if the officials in charge had to compensate the victims. Is it better to have all the tax payers pay someone $10,000,000 and the people who made the mistake get no punishment or have the people who made the mistake lose their houses and livelyhood and the victim receives these for compensation.

Maybe this would make government officials more accountable as opposed to getting the usual slap on the wrist. I can't say that $10,000,000 is fair or not fair but think the issue is not so simple. On what criteria should these settlements be based? Why not give him $1,000,000? Isn't that enough?

Question; did anyone who suffered as a result of the tainted blood scandal get anywhere near this much? Have natives, or the Japanese who were intered during World War II get this amount.

Given the amount spent on this inquiry and the fact that we can't quantify what this guy lost in Syria 10.5 million is far more than anyone normally gets in awards from a court for pain and suffering, and thats all that he incured in Syria, pain and suffering.

There are no medical reports, documents or other evidence pointing to the fact that said amounts will go to life long treatment that he may have sustained resulting from the ordeal.

I've heard alot from people on this board talking about not wishing to have lost a year of life for torture in Syria (as if you have any idea of what it was like) and that he deserves every penny of it.

I can tell you this, again absent any evidence of long term medical injuries coming as a result said torture, few men who have been wrongly imprisoned by OUR government have ever been awarded the amount that Mr. Arar got for an injustice which while assisted by us occured entirely in Syria, his country of origin.

Perhaps David Milgaard's award came close to that figure, but Donald Marshall's certainly did not and both of these men spent much of their youth wrongly incarcerated by again our governments.

Hell I don't even think we're sending this much money to aid the people of the Darfur region of Sudan! Anyways, despite the overly generous financial offer, the real insult may yet be forthcoming should US Homeland Security officials reveal the evidence they claim to have which justifies leaving Mr. Arar on their security watch list.

I commend the government for their honourable and just response. Thank you.

Watching people in my country - which is known throughout the world for generosity, tolerance, and open-mindedness - talk about a man "laughing all the way to the bank" after he was sent to Syria to be tortured... talking about how he should have "stayed home" after 9/11 and "not made us any trouble"...

I am utterly horrified and ashamed to hear this from people in my own country. It puts into clear perspective that while it's easy to criticise the Americans for their racial problems, there's a hell of a lot of cleaning up to do in our own back yard.

It is amazing how fast some people start hollering racism simply because some do not agree with how this mess is being handled by our government!

It is NOT about racism.It is about canadians constantly having to pay for stupid mistakes that our useless politicians make every time we turn around! My god..the billions wasted by these useless political twits who feel they are above reproach!

They are not,and if we are going to pay all this money to Mr.Arar or anyone else,somebody should be going down the road!Or to jail !So who's it going to be...because I for one am NOT impressed and I want to know who caused this and what mistakes were made!Every last one of them!

Enough damn cover-ups!It is my money too, and I care how it is spent! Far too often our tax dollars are wasted or stolen and nobody ever has to answer for it.

That is just plain criminal.What say you now MR.Harper? Who are the people responsable for this and will they be held accountable??

I don't believe the money would make me forget the experience. To be held in someone's power, and to be convinced through torture that one might never see the light of day again unless answers are given to questions which one knows nothing about, that is the horror that would haunt me forever.

There must be an investigation uncovering the whole truth about what happened to this innocent man and his family.

Those who are responsible should be held to account and they should be made personally liable for their actions.

Punishments (firings/jail) must be meted out as an example to dissuade any future would be collaborators in the insanity of George W Bush. Justice must be seen to be done.

May I assume that $10 million will be deducted from our foreign aid to Syria and $2 million will be removed from the RCMP budget?

Give me a break!this guy will be laughing all the way to the bank.

For someone who just wanted his life back, he's sure sucking up the limelight.It almost makes you wonder if there's a movie or book deal in the works.

If we have to compensate him, let's base the figure on the case of Randy Druken. He spent 14 years, 6 in a maximum security prison,clearing his name for a wrongful conviction for murder, he was awarded 2.1 million dollars, you do the math.

Or is it because Arar is such a 'visible' minority that we have to appease the whole muslim community by paying him this exorbitant sum.

Lets see how 'honourable' this guy really is, like he says."this is'nt about me,I just don't want this to happen to anyone else".Lets see how much he gives to charity, victim rights groups, etc.I'm afraid that our 'politically correct' elected officials and judges just opened a can of worms.

I cannot believe some of the comments that have been posted on here. "Let's send him back to Syria and save us all the expense", "Supporter's of Arar should give him their money", "let's stop pulling out the race card".

Yes Mr. Arar is of Middle Eastern decent but this is not why he was sent to Syria. He had mistakenly named him as a terrorist suspect and he was treated as such.

The United States, which outsources torture, sent him to Syria. This was a mistake by CSIS, the RCMP, the Canadian government, and the American government and authorities. And this has been admitted to.

Mr. Arar could have just as easily been White, Asian, Black, or Latino. He was on a list which he should not have been on, and Canadian authorities did nothing to stop his deporatation, even when they knew he was not guilty.

I am sick and tired of seeing how racist people in the country are getting and people who try to make things about race when it has nothing to do with it.

Of course the Canadian government has to compensate him, just like they have to compensate other people who have been victims of their wrong doings.

Tainted blood (both with people who became infected with HIV and Hep C), the people who were forced into camps during World War II, First Nation People's who were forced into residential schools, and cases of wrongful convictions (surprise, surprise, like Mr. Arar).

So, we have already spent alot of taxpayer's money on an inquiry into this affair. A further lawsuit brought against the government, which they would likely lose, would be a further cost to the taxpayer.

I think it is better to settle out of court and move on from here. For those who want proof of his torture I suggest they go to Syria and investigate on there own. That way they can spend their own money for their peace of mind and not more of my hard earned tax dollars.

Give me a break,As far as i`m conserned Arar went looking for trouble right after 9/11 and he found it.Canadian and U.S.Security systems and the world for that matter, where on high alert,so mistakes are going to be made.

I don`t think the information Canada gave the U.S.made any difference as to the outcome anyway.The Amerians took the 9/11 hit, so I would not have counted on them to do a whole lot of investigating on one person.

I feel the same as some others on this subject. There are to many unknown`s. What was his destination? What was the reason for traveling? What have the Americans got on him? Was he really tortured in Syria? It would be nice to have some answers to some of these questions.

If he would have stayed home until the the smoke cleared he would have been just fine,and saved us as taxpayers a lot of money.

If I had to spend 1 year of my life being tourchered in any prison, let alone Syria, $10 Million dollars wouldn't even come close to being adequate compensation. Everyone needs to bite the bullet on this one and let it go.

The people who say Maher Arar doesn't deserve the compensation package and apology, need to realize that past governments have apologized for very little over the years even though there was ample proof of numerous wrong doings.

We all need to realize that despite the fact that we all pay taxes (I pay a lot, believe me) and live in this country, we are all responsible for the past screwups even if we had no part in the process.

That's part of being Canadian and there's no point going around worrying about the next guy who apparently is getting more. Time to grow up people.

Considering that there are still people in Canada who think that because the USA continues to blacklist Mr. Arar, there must be something wrong with him, it is obvious that the damage to him, his family, and his life is not over.

It is a complete disgrace to Canada, the USA, and Syria that this man was unlawfully detained and TORTURED. No amount of money can ever fix that.

Of course the USA will never admit to anything, but will continue to claim they still have "reasons", because if they ever admitted wrongdoing in this case, the floodgates worldwide would open, and they'd be swamped with outraged claims by abused people.

If the USA actually did have valid evidence of any kind, you'd think they'd pass it on to Canada. Anti-terrorist intelligence in North America is not a one way street....or maybe it is...

Anyway, I think Arar deserves every penny, and I'm glad the Canadian government had the good sense to apologize, and compensate a fellow citizen for a horrendous injustice.

First, I salute Maher Arar and his wife for the dignity they have shown despite the brutal treatment they experienced at the hands of Canadians, Americans and Syrians.

Not only have these new Canadians displayed what real humanity is all about, they have helped to partially restore my faith in this country I have always called home.

Arar is a real hero and I am proud he calls himself a Canadian.

$10 million and an apology is hardly overpayment for the torture. And that says nothing about the coverups that took place within Canadian police and security service ranks, especially those peddling absolute lies to the news media in an effort to hinder Arar's fight for justice.

To those who still aren't convinced Arar deserves to be compensated, I suspect some of you will never be satisfied until you can find some flaw somewhere that suggests Arar is less than the man he has come across as being.

Few of us are waiting with much anticipation of any such enlightenment. After all, if there was a shred of evidence otherwise US ambassador David Wilkins would already have outed Arar.

Wilkin's comments on the Arar issue, coming only hours before this settlement was announced, once again shows the depths to which some Americans will sink before accepting wrong-doing.

I am especially pleased that the Arars now live in my community, which I have no doubt will benefit from their presence.

No amount of money could compensate a person for the torture he suffered and for the betrayal of being abandoned by his own nation to the paranoid thugs south of the border. $10 million is not enough.

The money should not only be considered compensation for Mr. Arar, but as a deterrent to Canadian agencies responsible for his mistreatment.

I resent my tax dollars being used this way as much as the other commenters here. That resentment should be directed at the organizations that allowed Arar to be treated this way, not at Arar himself. It SHOULD cost us GREATLY when our justice system fails a citizen. The lesson to be taken from this is that Canada should never allow the US to influence its justice system.

I do not believe our government should be paying anything to Arar. There's always been this feeling that there is more to this than meets the eye.

The US security as we now know had their own separate information on Arar, and information from Canada played no part in their decision to send Arar to Syria. They are continuing to bar him from the US as is their right. So is there more to this than we know? Of course.

However, that being said, this whole mess happened under the inept liberals, and has taken too much of this government's valuable time, it's time to close this chapter, and hope we never hear this man's name again.

O'h yes, each time one of you agree with this ungodly payout to Arar, think of your fellow Canadians who got HIV infected while receiving tainted blood. "Remember the tainted blood scandal"?

These loyal Canadians waited and waited, and waited, for recognition of their plight. Meantime some have died, more have been affected by HIV, and all of this took a terrible toll on their families. Not one person will receive even close to $500,000 alone $10,000,000. Fair treatment for all?

O'h on second thought, high priced lawyers apparently did not have enough sympathy for this type of case! Beating up the reputation of the RCMP was much more fun.

I want to see proof of his torture. I want to see justification of 10 million of the tax payers dollars going into his pockets.

Why not send him back to Syria and save us all the exspense. Also why is the U.S. so commited to keeping him on their watch list? Is there something they are not telling us? Maybe they were right?

Too much money and too quickly! Lets quit pulling out the race card to justify the $10,000,000.00.

That is a lot of money to go to one man, and that is on top of his lawyer fees, which are usually 30% plus expenses. Something smells of fish here!

If Mr Arar is not being permitted to enter the US, there must be more to the story which is not being provided to the Canadian public.

Why are Canadian taxpayers paying a $10 million penalty to this man? There will no doubt be more people in line looking for a big payout.

If history thought us anything, we ought to know, by now, that problems we face are a reflection of who we truly are as a society and how much we realy care about injustice, among many other important things.

So what is the lesson and what are we willing to do to prevent this types of incidents?

Accountability should not be limited only to people directly involved, rather all the way to the top of the government and judiciary. Where were they while this was happening right in front of them? Whose is defending
'Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms'?

I beleive, nevertheless, that compesation is good for Mr. Arar! Same is not true for the taxpayer, who has done nothing wrong or illegal to once again account for the misdeeds of those who should have known better considering their higher education.

While I do agree that Arar quite likely may be entitled to compensation down the road,I can't help but feel there are far too many unanswered questions remaining.And what's the rush? This money comes out of canadian pockets, and it is only right that we are satisfied as to what really happened.

Issues such as this become far to clouded when politics are involved!! We need to know exactly what the canadian government suspected Arar of doing in the first place, in detail. All of it. Not just the bits and peices we have been getting so far.

And we also need to know why the U.S. is not willing to remove him from their books? What do they have on him,if anything? Let's make damn sure we are not moving too quickly in the name of political correctness or public pressure.

It would be wrong to turn over taxpayers dollars without letting us first see ALL of the relative information on the Arar case.

I can't shake the feeling that something is missing here.I may be dead wrong on feeling that way,but as a canadian and a taxpayer,I should have the right to know it all,and BEFORE the money is paid.

It seems like too much expecially considering there is no definitive proof of anything.

I'd like to know what it is that the Americans have on him that they consider him a potential threat. After all if our government thinks it's no big deal then why not share this information with the public?

What a hit to the taxpayers. This whole case is based on him thinking he was singled out by the American authorities because of the colour of his skin.

Well guess what, there are hundreds of thousands of Canadians, of various ethnic backgrounds that visit the USA each year. None of the rest of them are sent to Syria.

There is much more to this story, then just the Americans picking on someone of a different colour.

When I think of all the good that could have been done with that 12 million it makes me sick. Fed hungry children, protected women from being abused, given medicine to sick children...instead it goes to make a Arar a very rich man so he can build a mansion. He must be laughing all the way to the bank

If people are so desperate to give Arar money then why don't all the supporters of Arar give him their money ? Oh wait, its better to give taxpayers dollars. I find it funny all the people wanting to give Arar boatloads of money...its funny that they never offered their own money to Arar.

This settlement is just. How about recovering the $10M from the government officials indirectly responsible for this man's suffering?

And to the first commentor, Jan Hoppe, do you think Arar was having a tea party while in Syrian custody?

Maher Arar deserves this compensation. Thr Arar Inquiry exposed some very troubling problems with what happened in his case -- problems caused by mistakes and wrongdoings by some Canadian officials and institutions.

As Justice O'Connor pointed out:

". .. Arar's inability to obtain employment has had a devastating economic and psychological impact on both him and his family. In addition, as the inquiry has proceeded, some of the mental suffering that Arar experienced in Syria has re-surfaced.

Based on the assumption that holding a public inquiry has served the public interest, Arar's role in it and the additional suffering he has experienced because of it should be recognized as a relevant factor in deciding whether compensation is warranted. . "

The inquiry found very unfair decisions were made that affected the rights of a Canadian citizen. This isn't just about torture. It's about consistent protection of important freedoms. $10 million is an appropriate amount.

Lets hope we learn from this situation.

This is appropriate reimbursement for the previous Canadian Government's failure to do anything about Mr. Arar's plight.

Hopefully Mr Arar finds solace in being financially secure for the rest of his life.

He should have received the full 37 million he was looking for.

The guy was tortured for quite sometime because the Canadian gov messed up, and now he still can't go back to the U.S. because he's on their watch list and the government (all parties included) are sitting on their hands once again because they don't want to ruffle any feathers on the eagle to the south. It's about time politicians in this country grow some balls and learn to stand of for it's citizens.

This is hit in the face of canadian taxpayer.
First there is no proof that Arar was tortured in Syria except his testimony.

Second canadian government does not have full knowledge of Arar activities.

Third why this rush ?. There are much more important problems to solve than to make that Arar a rich man. In health care, kids are going hungry.

I voted Harper party but with this mistake I think they are equal to Grits.