I'd like to hear what Bill Graham Canada's Foreign Minister at the time  has to say about his decision to permit the americans to torture Khadr and allow our officials to interrogate him at  GITMO while not pressing for his release.

It's fine to deal with  a break down  in law in the abstract - but real people made these decisions  from the moment Khadr was interrogated at Bagram (with Canadian consent) to the point where Harper challenged the supreme court ruling (and lost) 10 years later.

If there was a systemic breakdown it transcended the bureaucracy and government and crossed over three different prime ministers.