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Under the one country that is doing the right thing for a change category, the Canadian Supreme Court has dis-emboweled the government's program of detaining foreign terrorism suspects indefinitely and without the right to trial saying that the system violated Canada's bill of rights. Pay attention Idiot in Chief because your day is coming sir, one way or another.
The Justice Department had insisted that the "security certificate" program is a key tool in the fight against global terrorism and essential to national security.
But in a 9-0 judgment, the high court found the system violates the Charter of Rights and Freedom. It suspended the judgment from taking effect for a year, to give Parliament time to rewrite the law that deals with the certificates.
The certificates were challenged on constitutional grounds by three men from Morocco, Syria and Algeria — all alleged by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service to have ties to al-Qaida and other terrorist groups.
"The overarching principle of fundamental justice that applies here is this: before the state can detain people for significant periods of time, it must accord them a fair judicial process," Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin wrote in the ruling.
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