OTTAWA - The Maher Arar commission says a recent court judgment paves the way for release of the most important parts of an inquiry report still under wraps.
Last September the commission published its report on the Arar affair with deletions demanded by the federal government, which claimed disclosure would harm national security.
The Federal Court has ordered release of some of the withheld information.
Commission counsel Paul Cavalluzzo says the inquiry will not appeal the court ruling because the more important information in dispute will now be disclosed.
The government is deciding whether to appeal.
Arar, a Syrian-born Canadian, was detained in New York in September 2002 and deported as a terrorism suspect by U.S. authorities, winding up in a Damascus prison cell.
The inquiry report said faulty information the RCMP passed to the United States very likely led to the Ottawa engineer's year-long nightmare.
