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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (8097)	6/13/2006 12:41:38 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 14758

Canada's Government Planning A Guantanamo? english.aljazeera.net ^ Canada is reviewing laws allowing detention without charge, as lawyers for 17 terror suspects arrested this month say that their Muslim clients have no chance of a fair trial. The supreme court is to hear arguments this week on whether security certificates that allow secret court hearings, undisclosed evidence and open-ended detention are constitutional. The certificates were introduced under the immigration act in 1976, but since September 2001 they have been used to jail five Muslims - Adil Charkaoui, Mohamed Harkat, Hasan Almrei, Mahmoud Jaballah and Mohammed Mahjoub - suspected of links to terrorists abroad or membership of a terrorist group. Canadian MPs say the measures are needed to thwart terrorist attacks, but lawyers for three of the detainees say they breach civil liberties. Federal lawyers argue that secrecy prevents disclosure of intelligence and surveillance techniques to terrorists abroad. They said in a court brief: "The greater the number of individuals with access to this information, the greater the risk of advertent and inadvertent disclosure. What is fair depends entirely on the context." "Civil liberties are basic to every person... We can't permit this idea of pre-emptive detention" Civil libertarians hope that the court will undo what they call a hysterical reaction to security threats.