OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon has denied a published report that Canada lost track of war prisoners its soldiers transferred to Afghan authorities.
Cannon says Canadian authorities can account for all detainees transferred to Afghanistan, but he admits there have been delays in tracking some of them down.
Cannon's comments came today during a joint news conference with Haiti's visiting prime minister.
The government has faced heavy criticism in recent weeks over its handling of detainees captured during the war in Afghanistan.
Conservative cabinet ministers have denied that enemy fighters captured by the Canadian Forces were later abused by their Afghan jailers.
But those denials have since been cast in doubt by the chief of the defence staff, Gen. Walt Natynczyk.
