A pair of Quebec filmmakers have recently put together a documentary on the plight of Omar Khadr, the Canadian child soldier being held in Gitmo. And some lawmakers are going to see it.
Vous n'aimez pas la vérité: quatre jours à Guantanamo (You Don't Like the Truth: Four Days Inside Guantanamo) had its world premiere last week at the Festival du Nouveau Cinema in Montreal.
The Bloc Québécois plans to screen it for MPs in Ottawa this Wednesday.
Khadr, for those who don't know, has been detained since 2002 even though the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (which Canada has signed, but we haven't) appeared to require Canada to repatriate him. The film includes a lot of the video from Khadr's 2003 interrogation, which the Canadian Supreme Court ruled was a violation of his rights. And get this--this film may be used as part of Khadr's closing arguments at his trial.
The film uses a large amount of footage from Khadr's 2003 interrogation. It was made public after the Canadian Supreme Court ruled that the interrogation violated Khadr's rights.