Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould has asked the former deputy attorney general of Ontario, Murray Segal, to conduct the external review of the extradition of Hassan Diab.

A Canadian steel company that helped build the new World Trade Center is feeling betrayed by U.S. tariffs on steel and by the justification offered for those measures.

France was aware of and failed to disclose fingerprint evidence that ultimately helped to clear Hassan Diab of committing a terrorist attack when it made its formal extradition request to Canada, CBC News has learned.

A senior Department of Justice official running the internal review of the Hassan Diab extradition case also played a role in the Ottawa academics extradition to France something Diabs lawyer calls a clear conflict of interest.

Hassan Diab, the Ottawa university lecturer who was extradited to France and spent three years in prison there before a judge ordered his release, says the promise of an independent review of his case doesn't go far enough.

Canada extradites the overwhelming majority of the people it arrests on behalf of foreign states a figure so high that critics say it points to problems with Canadas extradition laws.

Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland will closely monitor an internal Department of Justice review of Hassan Diab's extradition on terrorism charges to ensure the Canadian university professor "gets the answers he deserves," a government official with direct knowledge of the file told CBC News.