More Afghan detainee documents released
Last Updated: Thursday, April 1, 2010 | 11:48 PM ET
CBC News
The federal government has released more documents relating to the transfer of Afghan detainees.
Conservative MP Tom Lukiwski, the parliamentary secretary to the government House leader, tabled more than 6,000 pages of additional documents in the House of Commons Thursday.
Conservative MP Tom Lukiwski, the parliamentary secretary to the government House leader, tabled another 6,000 pages of documents relating to the transfer of Afghan detainees in the House of Commons Thursday.
(Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian Press) One opposition MP said the latest release does not provide any new information.
"Our initial assessment is that these documents are not new," NDP MP Jack Harris said. "We still have a lot of pages to go through but many of these documents are online and have been publicly available for years.
"Trying to bury us in documents is not going to work. The government must stop delaying the truth and abide by the order of the House."
The Liberals will go through the documents over the weekend, foreign affairs critic Bob Rae said.
Thursday's release comes one week after the government's initial tabling of 2,500 documents related to the Afghan detainee controversy.
The documents were heavily redacted, leading opposition MPs to accuse the Conservative government of contempt of Parliament.
On Wednesday in the House of Commons, Justice Minister Rob Nicholson said the government shouldn't have to release unredacted copies of the documents that had been tabled on March 25.
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