OTTAWA - The NDP has tried using parliamentary procedure to repatriate a Canadian stranded in Sudan.
MP Paul Dewar tabled a motion at the House of Commons Foreign Affairs and International Development committee to force that stranded Canadian to appear for testimony.
The would-be witness - Sudanese-Canadian Abousfian Abdelrazik - has been effectively barred from the country and is living at the Canadian embassy in Khartoum.
Although he was once accused of having ties to terrorists, Abdelrazik has been cleared by the RCMP and CSIS of any wrongdoing.
But the government won't issue the travel documents the Montreal man needs to return home.
Dewar's motion passed easily, with support from all opposition parties while the Conservative members abstained Monday.
