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Travel => Airlines => Topic started by: Bulldog on June 17, 2007, 11:25:29 PM
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Updated Sun. Jun. 17 2007 11:12 PM ET
CTV.ca News Staff
Canada's no-fly list takes effect on Monday, and the anti-terror move has at least one human rights group warning it could create another Maher Arar-like case.
"The list will invade privacy, it may be shared with foreign agencies, foreign governments," said Ayman al-Yassini of the Canadian Foundation for Race Relations.
Arar is a Syrian-born Canadian shipped to Syria by U.S. authorities in 2002 after he was taken into custody at a New York airport.
Syrian authorities tortured Arar during his 10 months in captivity, and he made a false confession to terrorist involvement. An inquiry fully exonerated Arar, but the U.S. continues to keep Arar on a no-fly list.
CSIS and the RCMP have compiled the Canadian list, which is designed to keep terror suspects off commercial flights in this country.
The RCMP supplied erroneous information to the U.S. about Arar.
For this list, the criteria include:
A person who is or has been involved in a terrorist group,
A person who has been convicted of life-threatening crimes against aviation, or
A person who has been convicted of one or more serious offences who may attack an air carrier
Transport Canada won't reveal how many names are on the list. People won't find out they're on the list until they show up at the airport.
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