Canadian Security Intelligence Service: National Security Certificate

Federal Cabinet Minister Dept: TORONTO A former federal cabinet minister told an Ontario court Thursday he had been warned there was no way of knowing whether information in a national security certificate used to detain accused terrorist Mohamed Mahjoub was obtained through torture, according to The Chronicle Herald. Testifying by videolink from Vancouver, Day said the former director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service gave him a memo stating that it was difficult, if not impossible to determine if the information used as evidence was torture-derived because some of it had come from countries with a reputation of employing those practices and former public safety minister Stockwell Day said he signed the security certificate in February 2008 following numerous discussions and inquiry with intelligence and border officials. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.