In her column yesterday, Josée Legault asserted that Michael Ignatieff “supported the American invasion of Iraq and the use of torture.” In fact Mr. Ignatieff has not endorsed the use of torture; he has opposed it.
In a 2004 article Ignatieff wrote that “outright torture is anathema to a society built on freedom” but that in fighting terrorism “we” (Americans) will have to traffic in “lesser evils” such as “indefinite detention of suspects on lower standards of probable cause, coercive interrogations that fall short of torture, target assassinations of terrorist suspects, and even pre-emptive war.” Interrogation techniques he said would be acceptable include “sleep deprivation, disinformation, or disorientation.”
“… To safeguard our own democratic society,” he said, we must define “coercive interrogation that stops short of torture.”
The Gazette regrets the error.

Thanks, Daniel!