Original author: Megan Gillis
Source: The Ottawa Sun
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Date: September 7, 2005

An Ottawa man jailed as a suspected terrorist for 1,001 days without criminal charges or a trial, will take his fight against deportation to Syria to the Supreme Court of Canada.

Three Federal Court of Appeal justices took mere minutes yesterday to uphold a national security certificate against Mohamed Harkat.

The justices dismissed a second appeal by a detained Muslim man that Canada's immigration law is unconstitutional.

Harkat's lawyer Paul Copeland argued that deporting people based on evidence they can't see or challenge violates their constitutional right to fundamental justice.

At minimum, the law should allow for security-cleared lawyers to hear and challenge secret testimony, Copeland argued.

It was an appeal he expected to lose.

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