Paul Champ and Anser Farooq

Immigration Refugee Board: Trying to deport a suspected terrorist rather than put him on trial is a shortcut that doesn’t demonstrate real respect for our law, says prominent Ottawa-based human rights lawyer Paul Champ, according to Toronto Star. Obviously, it is Canada sovereign right to decide which non-citizens it doesn’t want within our borders, said Champ, but if someone is proven to be committing criminal offences within our borders, I think it incumbent to prosecute and jail them before deporting them. His own lawyer, Anser Farooq, is demanding that his case be tried in court, where the threshold for proof of guilt — beyond a reasonable doubt — is far higher than before the Immigration and Refugee Board, where the government must simply establish there are reasonable grounds to believe that a person has engaged or will engage in terrorism activity. The federal government alleges that Malik is a self-proclaimed supporter of the Islamic State group and Al Qaeda who wanted to build remote-controlled bombs to blow up the U.S. Consulate and other buildings in Toronto financial district, and film the explosions to encourage others to do the same. He remains in a Lindsay, Ont., jail, and returns to the IRB on Monday for another review of his detention. Malik, who was arrested Monday after a six-month investigation, has not been criminally charged. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.