Public Safety committee  We have come back from where--from here?

Public Safety committee  All the questions they're going to ask you are about coming from Canada. If Canada made these allegations about you, and you didn't clear your name there.... They think the process with security certificates is fair, but to me it's not fair. I don't have the evidence to defend my

Public Safety committee  Recently an Algerian in London just went back, because we all want to go back, and he was sentenced to eight years in jail. He just went back to say he was not.... Algeria is not like.... There is no idea about how the system works in Algeria. I was born there, and I know how the

Public Safety committee  Somebody should be treated with the Criminal Code and sentenced like anybody else. If there is some suspicion of me, I'm not supposed to be standing in front of you here. I'm not coming to face you, I am innocent. I'm just looking for justice. Already the Canadian government said

Public Safety committee  I don't take that action because if we accept that Canada is built on justice, if I can't have the opportunity to defend myself in this country—compare it to Algeria, which has the worst justice system—how are we going to accept that you're going to let me go? I'm now in a bail

Public Safety committee  Actually, I left Algeria almost 19 years ago and it was the first time I left Algeria. I went to Saudi Arabia to try to study or to work there because of the political situation in Algeria that time, which I was involved in, and the army and the police started looking for me. The

Public Safety committee  Good morning. My name is Mohamed Harkat. On December 10--Human Rights Day--five years ago, our nightmare started. After 43 months of detention without charge or access to the evidence, one year in solitary confinement, time spent in Guantanamo North, and one and a half years und