Life Is Not Purgatory
Wednesday, March 09, 2005
Security Certificates
I have posted my thoughts on this before but I feel that with the recent deporation of the holocaust denier Ernst Zundel that it needs to be done again.
I find the opinons expressed by Ernst Zundel to be objectionable, but I do not understand the threat posed by a 66-year old hate monger. Since her was deprted from the United States after his violation of US Immigration laws Zundel was held in protective custody at a Canadian prison on a Certificate under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (aka. Security Certificate) until his last legal avenue was heard and he was deported to his native Germany to face trial and punishment under Germany’s hate crime law.
How much of a threat did this man pose that he was locked away in a cell without a trial? Granted he is a man whose grasp off history is seriously flawed at best and who should have been deported from our country without question, but should we have suspended all of his civil liberties because we don’t like what he says?
The power of a security certificate is too broad, with the only judicial oversight being a single, Federal Court justice. There is no appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada, and that is a serious cause for concern…
"I do not agree with a word that you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" – François-Marie Arouet (aka Voltaire)
I have posted my thoughts on this before but I feel that with the recent deporation of the holocaust denier Ernst Zundel that it needs to be done again.
I find the opinons expressed by Ernst Zundel to be objectionable, but I do not understand the threat posed by a 66-year old hate monger. Since her was deprted from the United States after his violation of US Immigration laws Zundel was held in protective custody at a Canadian prison on a Certificate under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (aka. Security Certificate) until his last legal avenue was heard and he was deported to his native Germany to face trial and punishment under Germany’s hate crime law.
How much of a threat did this man pose that he was locked away in a cell without a trial? Granted he is a man whose grasp off history is seriously flawed at best and who should have been deported from our country without question, but should we have suspended all of his civil liberties because we don’t like what he says?
The power of a security certificate is too broad, with the only judicial oversight being a single, Federal Court justice. There is no appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada, and that is a serious cause for concern…
"I do not agree with a word that you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" – François-Marie Arouet (aka Voltaire)
