"This is never going to go away."

MPs to push for Afghan prisoner torture probe into next year

Opposition MPs are prepared to continue Parliamentary hearings into prisoner torture in Afghanistan for a full year as they press Prime Minister Stephen Harper for a judicial inquiry into the fate of detainees captured by Canadian soldiers.

Liberal MP Ujjal Dosanjh (Vancouver South, B.C.) said the lists of contacts and names on internal emails from diplomat whistleblower Richard Colvin are so extensive there is virtually no end to the number of witnesses the special Commons committee on Afghanistan can call.

"Some of us are determined that we will not stop hearings on this," Mr. Dosanjh said in an interview with The Hill Times. "... This is never going to go away."

That's what I said over a year and a half ago. It's the issue that won't go away. Would this be a good time to thank Peter Tinsley for hanging in there despite all the roadblocks the government put in his way?