In a word, yes.

Michael Ratner is an attorney who has represented Gitmo prisoners, is an adjunct professor of law at Columbia University Law School, president of the Center for Constitutional Rights, and a co-host of Pacifica radio show Law and Disorder. Much like the rest of us, Ratner is simply shocked that Canada would so publicly bend over for the United States when the entire world knows we engage in torture. Amnesty International has also criticized Canada for taking the US and Israel off the list for purely political reasons. The Canadian role of lap dog was made painfully clear when Canadian foreign minister Maxime Bernier shamelessly apologized with his tail between his legs, saying the list “wrongly includes some of our closest allies. I have directed that the manual be reviewed and rewritten.”