Zundel files $10 million suit against Ottawa

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Here is the latest from the Zundel-Front!  Incidentally, I had no 
idea this was coming - I haven't had any mail from Ernst for four 
weeks, and I know that he writes to me practically every day!

Enjoy!

Ingrid

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Zundel files suit against Ottawa

By RICHARD BLACKWELL
Globe and Mail, Wednesday, November 2, 2005 Page A17



Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel is suing the federal government for 
$10-million, claiming he was unjustly held in solitary confinement 
and deported to Germany.

In a statement of claim filed yesterday, Mr. Zundel said that his 
treatment at the hands of the government was illegal and 
unconstitutional.

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 says in his court filing that the government is trying to 
block his suit before the Supreme Court of Canada rules on the 
constitutionality of security certificates.

The top court has said it will examine the issue in two cases 
involving Hassan Almrei and Adil Charkaoui, who are suspected of 
being terrorists.
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.

"The rules of justice have to apply to everyone, even Ernst Zundel," 
Mr. Lindsay said.

In his claim, Mr. Zundel said the government's actions caused him 
"colossal damages arising from his hasty deportation which can 
neither be mitigated against nor reversed."

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