The Federal Court of Canada in 2009 ordered the then Conservative government to allow Montrealer  Abousfian Abdelrazik, who had been stranded in Sudan for six years as an al-Qaeda suspect, to return home. 

A former Canadian Security Intelligence Service agent says that in 2009, CSIS had very little information to indicate whether Abousfian Abdelrazik was a national security threat — information that was shared with the foreign affairs minister at the time before he denied the Montreal man an emergency travel document to leave Sudan.