Ottawa, Nov 17 : Canadian government is learnt to be spending between five and ten lakhs in keeping a vigil on suspected al-Qaeda members, who belong to other countries but have been released into Canadian communities.
They were not deported back to their home countries, because judges found that they would be at risk of torture in their homelands, and also that it would be inhumane to detain them indefinitely in Canada, said a report in the Globe and Mail.
In one case, federal department officials budgeted for six full-time agents to watch one released prisoner, at an annual cost of 868,700 dollars.