10-12 Room 119
OPENING CEREMONY by Tekarontake, Wolfclan (Mohawk elder)
Alex Neve, Secretary General, Amnesty International Canada (English branch) : Security certificates and arbitrary detention
Hind or Latifa Charkaoui (TBC): Impact of security certificates on women and family members
Victor Regalado: personal testimony, arrested under security certificate in 1982
Tekarontake: Borders and deportation as a Mohawk
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10-12 Bloc 4 Auditorium
Warren Allmand, PC, OC, QC, ICLMG: international law, charter and security certificates
Sheikh Ali Sbeiti, Al Hidaya centre: personal and community experiences
Boualem B.: personal testimony
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10-12 Bloc 7 Auditorium
Alex Popovic, Collective opposed to Police Brutality: CSIS as a threat to “national security”
TBA
TBA
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10-12 Bloc 10 Room 119
Denis Barrette, lawyer with Ligue des droits: Canadian policy and practice on deportation and torture
Richard Renshaw, Impact of torture
TBA
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| 2:30-4 Bloc 2 Auditorium
Halima Mautbur, CAIR-CAN: Broad impact of security certificates on Muslim communities in Canada
Sophie Lamarche Harkat, married to Mohamed Harkat: personal testimony
| 1-3 Bloc 5 Auditorium
Gary Kinsman, Professor, Sociology, Laurentian University: Canadian state surveillance and the creation of enemies
Jaggi Singh, social justice advocate: The RCMP, CSIS and policing in Canada, an activist view
Evert Hoogers, Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW): CSIS and RCMP surveillance of CUPW and the shroud of “national security”
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1-3 Bloc 8 Auditorium
Marie-Jo Ouimet, MD, ASILE: psychological impact of migration experience of detention, uncertainty and distrust
Abdel-Raouf Neifer, Personal testimony of a refugee who has been in limbo for 14 years waiting for his papers
Arash A.: Personal testimony of a refugee from Iran who spent 10 months in detention
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1-3 Bloc 11 Room 119
John Norris, Criminal lawyer and counsel for Jaballah, Almrei and Mahjoub: Due process issues in security certificate cases
Matthew Behrens, social justice activist: abuses in cases of Jaballah, Almrei and Mahjoub
Christian Legeais, Justice for Mohamed Harkat Committee: Testimony on the situation of Mohamed Harkat
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4:30-6 Bloc 3 Auditorium
Sharryn Aiken, Prof of Law at Queens University and proposed Intervenor in Supreme Court on security certificate challenges: Alternatives to security certificates
Dieter Misgeld, partner of Amparo Torres who is a Colombian social activist, accepted refugee, now facing deportation on false accusation of assocation with FARC
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3.30-6 Bloc 6 Auditorium
Johanne Doyon, immigration lawyer bringing challenge to Supreme Court on behalf of Charkaoui: use of secret evidence and closed hearings in immigration proceedings other than “security certificates”
Sherene Razack, Professor, OISE, University of Toronto: Race and National Security in Canada
Adil Charkaoui: Testimony
TBA: Situation of Sogi Bachan Singh (TBC)
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4-6 Bloc 9 Auditorium
Janet Dench, Executive Director of Canadian Council for Refugees: other measures in IRPA that deny justice to immigrants on security grounds
Mohan Mishra: “Project Thread” under which 20 non-status men were groundlessly detained on security grounds
Suleyman Goven: Personal testimony of an accepted refugee living in limbo and denied status since 1994, after being targetted by CSIS; he is now suing the government.
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4-6 Bloc 12 Room 119
No One is Illegal -Montreal, Challenging global apartheid: questioning borders and immigration controls
Ahmad Jaballah (speaker phone), oldest son of Mahmoud Jaballah: Personal testimony
TBA
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