March 11, 2008—It’s Democracy Day in Canada, and liberal types on the CBC and in the papers are gushing about the wonders of this country. One wonders what they would have thought had they been attending the hearing today hosted by Federal Court Chief Justice Alan Lutfy in Ottawa, with affected parties listening in by speaker phone in Toronto and Montreal.
In essence, the discussion focused without any particular sense of irony on how best to fairly, compassionately, and expeditiously implement the next stage of a process that guarantees indefinite detention without charge on secret suspicions, two-tier justice, racial profiling, and deportation to torture.
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Secrecy Piled on Secrecy: Democracy Day in Secret Trials Land
posted on March 19, 2008 | in Category Security Certificates | PermaLink
by Matthew Behrens
Source: The Campaign to Stop Secret Trials in Canada
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Date: March 11, 2008
Democracy Day in the Land of Secret Trials: Federal Court Tries to Speed Through New Security Certificate Proceedings While Detainees’ Special Advocates Now Face A Secret Hearing About Alleged Conflict of Interest
