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Cheney should be barred from Canada over torture record: NDP

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VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – The NDP’s immigration critic is adding his voice to a chorus of people demanding that former US Vice President Dick Cheney be barred from entering our country.

Cheney is due to visit Vancouver Monday to promote his new book, “In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir.”

In the book Cheney defends the use of waterboarding and other interrogation techniques widely considered torture. He defends the use of waterboarding and sleep deprivation, saying they are not torture since the tactics were first tested on Americans.

But many say he should be criminally charged for his use of the controversial techniques. The NDP’s Don Davies says if Canada can ban people who support terrorist groups, it should treat Cheney the same way.

“The government also kept out George Galloway, a previous British member of parliament, and I would be disappointed if our government is selectively applying the laws against people they like or don’t like,” Davies tells News1130.

Galloway encouraged funding for Hamas, a Palestinian group considered a terrorist organization by Israel, the US and the European Union.

“I’m just asking the government to be consistent,” says Davies. “If we’re going to have a policy of keeping war criminals out of Canada, or people who have committed war crimes, then we should apply that consistently.”

George W. Bush himself will also visiting the Lower Mainland next month to attend an economic summit in Surrey.

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