TORONTO—A professional pilot has been stripped of his security clearance at a Montreal airport over threatening emails and comments, including one in which he said he would “slit your throat” and “do something” that would land him a life prison sentence. Transport Canada revoked Julius Varadi’s security clearance on the grounds he might commit an act that would “unlawfully interfere with civil aviation.” A civil aircraft pilot since the 1980s, Varadi required the clearance to work at Trudeau airport in Montreal. He had appealed to the Federal Court of Canada but lost in a ruling delivered Wednesday by Justice Denis Gascon. “I cannot conclude that the decision cancelling Mr. Varadi’s TSC (Transportation Security Clearance) was unreasonable,” the judge wrote. No charges were ever laid but the RCMP brought the incidents to the attention of Transport Canada, which said that while Varadi had said his emails were “sarcastic in nature” and that he got “mad on occasion,” they were “graphic and that they should be taken seriously,” Gascon wrote.

Source: National Post February 10, 2017 20:03 UTC