Human rights and security: where does Canada Stand? February 21, 2006

Extraordinary rendition, security certificates, racial profiling and no fly lists ? these terms have all taken on a new meaning in Canada since 9/11. After four years of living with the ?new normal?, where does Canada stand? Observers point to Guantanamo Bay and other U.S. run detention centres around the world where over 3,000 ?enemy combatants? and suspected terrorists are being held without trial. But what of Canadian jails, where several Muslim men are being held as a threat to security - for four years and counting- without charges and without knowledge of the evidence against them?

While no fly lists can be effective and contribute to greater safety are they in fact casting too wide a net? Can Canadian democracy justify detention without trial ? Can we justify extradition to countries like Syria where interrogation with torture is practised? Or is it reasonable to expect some limits on human rights to contain terrorist threats to our security?

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Matthew Behrens: Co-ordinator of the Campaign to Stop the Secret Trials in Canada
Nandita Sharma: Professor in the School of Social Sciences, York University.
Ahmad Jaballah: Son of detainee Mahmoud Jaballah.
Representatives of the new Conservative Government have been invited.

Moderator: Linda Diebel: Journalist with the Toronto Star and author of Betrayed: the Assassination of Digna Ochoa.

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