Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Government Canada

federal government: The Egyptian-born writer, broadcaster and filmmaker has already had a taste of how much his adopted home has changed, according to Toronto Star. His belief that the federal government takes care of Canadian citizens unjustly imprisoned abroad was shaken by his 411-day detainment in a Cairo jail. The Canada he left 13 years ago as an aspiring journalist is not the nation of today. His hopes that Prime Minister Stephen Harper would pick up the phone and call his Egyptian counterpart dimmed as his second trial approached. In 2002, when he last lived here, the government of Canada went to bat for citizens who ran afoul of authoritarian regimes. It is understandable that Fahmy expected more. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.