MONTREAL—Canada’s position on human rights issues is becoming harder and harder to predict, says Amnesty International’s newly appointed boss.
Salil Shetty said Monday that Canada is now taking drastically different positions in areas such as torture and the death penalty where it has traditionally been progressive.
“Generally speaking if you talk to most Canadians, there’s a big gap between what they believe Canada does and what the reality is in terms of government policy and actions,” Shetty said in an interview.
“It’s a G8 country, it’s a major world power and it has produced so many leaders on these issues, so it has (had) a trendsetting or agenda-setting role.”
Amnesty’s new secretary general said it’s hard to know where Canada stands on many issues.
“You could predict where Canada stood on many of the issues in the past and now you can’t be sure,” Shetty said before delivering a speech at the CIVICUS World Assembly, a gathering of civil society groups.
Canada unpredictable on human rights says new Amnesty boss - thestar.com
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