!!!! Join the cross-Canada Day of Action, Saturday, October 20th !!!! !!!! Sign up for Emergency Actions when the new law is introduced into Parliament !!!! The campaign against secret trials won a victory in February when the Supreme Court recognized that the "security certificate" is unconstitutional. However, the Supreme Court gave the government one year before the law falls. All five detainees thus remain in indefinite, arbitrary detention or house arrest conditions, under threat of deportation to torture - under a law that has now been recognized as illegal.The Harper government has announced that it will introduce NEW security
certificate legislation this fall. This is likely to be based on the
"special advocate" model, which will continue the injustice of security
certificates while further entrenching the use of secrecy in the immigration
and justice systems.

Harper will be asking us to accept a new kind of unfair, secret trial and a
different way of practicing racism. His government will be counting on
Canadians to continue to accept the violation of the rights of immigrants,
indefinite detention/house arrest and the practice of holding people under
threat of deportation to torture.

The decision to introduce new security certificate legislation is an affront
to democracy and to justice. No amount of tinkering can make a process fair
that is essentially discriminatory, treating the liberty of non-citizens
with contempt. It is a process that places abitrary power in the hands of
spy agencies and politicians, that replaces precise charges with vague
concepts, that relies on secret suspicions, profiling and association
instead of evidence, and that has no end except deportation to further
torture. It assumes that immigrants are potential "threats to national
security". It cannot be reformed, and must be eliminated.

Let's oppose new legislation that will only feed the national security
agenda and allow CSIS to continue to target certain communities with
impunity.

Let's insist that the secret trial five, along with their families, be freed
from the daily humiliation and indignity of draconian house arrest
conditions and the ongoing threat of deportation under an unconstitutional
law.

GET INVOLVED!

We are planning a Canada-wide day of action for Saturday, October 20. We are
also planning emergency responses within 48 hours of the new legislation
being introduced in Parliament.

Join us to resist racist paranoia and demand:

- No new Security Certificate legislation;
- Immediately free the five from all conditions or charge them and provide
them with a full, fair, and open trial;
- End deportation proceedings against the five;
- End deportations to torture; and
- Close "Guantanamo North".

TO JOIN IN:

1. Write and call your MP and let them know that you are counting on them to
vote against the new security certificate legislation (and that NO fancy
window dressing, such as special advocates, can fix a
fundamentally flawed and unfair regime). Postcard / sample letter available
from [email] ; you can find your MP's
contacts via [link]

2. Be part of the emergency response network that will organize actions
within 48 hours of the government introducing new security certificate
legislation. Contact [email] if you would like to
participate.

3. Get your group to endorse the coast-to-coast-to-coast day of action on
Saturday, October 20. Send an email to [email] to endorse.

4. If you plan to organize a march or rally or other action on October 20
and would like to be included in the joint press release for the day of
action, please email [email].


FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Toronto: Campaign to Stop Secret Trials in Canada, [email], (416)
651-5800.

Montreal: Coalition Justice for Adil Charkaoui, [email],
514 859 9023.

Ottawa: Justice for Mohamed Harkat Committee,
[email]