Wednesday, November 2, 2005

The Globe and Mail reports that Ernst Zundel, revisionist historian, is suing the federal government for $10-million for unjustly holding him in solitary confinement and then deporting him to Germany. Mr. Zundel has formally charged that his treatment at the hands of the government was illegal and unconstitutional.

The report states that “Mr. Justice Pierre Blais of the Federal Court ruled in February that Mr. Zundel was a threat to national security and that he had tried to develop and maintain a global network of groups with an interest in a ‘right-wing, extremist, neo-Nazi mindset.’

“Mr. Zundel was deported to Germany in March, jailed there, and charged with inciting racial hatred. Judge Blais said it was reasonable to hold Mr. Zundel in jail in Canada under the controversial security certificate process, which allows secret hearings that are closed to the accused and their lawyers. Government lawyers will try to have Mr. Zundel’s suit thrown out at a hearing in the Federal Court on Nov. 23.

“Mr. Zundel’s lawyer, Peter Lindsay, said Mr. Zundel was held and deported ‘based on a process that we argue is blatantly unconstitutional and contrary to every sense of justice that any normal person would have.’”

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