This article was last updated on April 16, 2022
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The federal government is pressing on the Supreme Court of Canada to endorse the country’s second attempt at shaping special immigration warrants that would allow it to deport terror suspects, while granting even greater protection to secret informants. The challenge against the Ottawa’s crucial anti-terror security certificate was initiated on Thursday, which is an inevitable key test of the power of the federal government to deport immigrants who are not Canadian citizens on the basis of secret evidence.
The proposed law allows closed-door hearings of “national security” evidence, while the Supreme Court of Canada will also be made to undertake an extraordinary closed-door hearing at an undisclosed location on Friday for probing the evidence at the heart of the matter. However, the appeal took an odd turn when federal lawyers contended that majority of the evidence justifying the deportation of Mohamed Harkat is already public.
Apart from that, the federal government is also courting the court to affirm the rules allowing the person named in the security certificate to receive only a summary of the case against them, skipping supporting details in order to protect sensitive intelligence information. In fact, Ottawa has not only asked the high court to back the regime but asks to reinforce the secrecy that cloaks the identity of government informants by granting them a “class privilege” or blanket protection. Mohamed Harkat is an Algerian-born man suspected of running guest houses for training terrorists in Pakistan on behalf of Al Qaeda affiliated groups, who actually denies all the accusations against him.
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