Stockwell Day: Security Certificates

Federal Cabinet Minister Dept: Former public safety minister Stockwell Day said he signed five security certificates in late February 2008 including Mahjoub's after reviewing a "voluminous" amount of documents and "numerous" discussions with both intelligence and border officials, according to Vancouver Sun. "I was satisfied with all of the information before me to date," he told a Federal Court judge in Toronto and tORONTO - A former federal cabinet minister told an Ontario court Thursday he had been warned that there was no way of knowing whether information in a national security certificate used to arrest accused terrorist Mohamed Mahjoub was obtained through torture. Testifying by videolink from Vancouver, Day said he was confident in the information even though the former head the Canadian Security Intelligence Service had given him a memo stating it was "difficult, if not impossible" to determine the source of the information, particularly because some of it had come from countries with a reputation of using torture. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.