TORONTO — The Canadian government’s designation of an Egyptian man as a threat to national security is unreasonable, a federal court judge has ruled. “I conclude that the security certificate filed by the minister is not reasonable and will be set aside,” Federal Court Judge Dolores Hansen said in her decision. Classified reasons will also be issued and will include the information that cannot be disclosed for reasons of national security. Jaballah was originally arrested in Canada in 1999 under a highly criticized national security certificate based largely on secret evidence he was not allowed to see. In 2007, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled the national certificate process to be unfair because of the secrecy, and quashed the certificates but gave the government a year to rewrite the rules.

Source: National Post May 24, 2016 22:26 UTC