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Ottawa Ontario

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The Honourable Chrystia Freeland

Minister of Foreign Affairs

125 Sussex Drive

Ottawa, Ontario

K1A 0G2 

July 10, 2017

Dear Ms. Freeland,

At a news conference on Parliament Hill on July 7, you Minister, the Honourable Jody Wilson-Raybould Minister of Justice, and the Honourable Ralph Goodale Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, to quote the Ottawa Citizen “drove home the point that the settlement dealt exclusively with the fact Khadr's charter rights were violated by the previous Conservative government.”

That is awfully decent of all of you. In the hope that this is not only for show, I ask you to review an unacknowledged letter dated May 1, 2017 sent to your honourable colleague, Scott Brison and ask him to do right by me and my wife as you say your government has done by Mr. Khadr, and, one has to assume, by Abdullah Almalki, Ahmad Abou-Elmatti and Muayyed Nureddin.

For denying me my Charter Rights, in this instance due process, I ask only for what was taken away from me then, nothing more, nothing less. A pittance considering. But that is alright. After all, it was not the taxpayers’ fault.

Sincerely Yours

Bernard Payeur

Enclosed: Letter to the Honourable Scott Brison, President of the Treasury Board

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It's now been more than a year and not even a perfunctory acknowledgement.