New Brunswick Federation of Labour, June 2009

Resolution No. 49 Submitted by the Canadian Union of Postal Workers

SECURITY CERTIFICATES

The Federation will:

Support the fight to abolish the security certificate system and will continue to work, through the CLC with human rights groups and civil liberties organizations opposing the violations of human rights and civil liberties involved in so-called “national security” initiatives.

Because security cannot be separated from human rights;

Because the “special advocate” provision in the new security certificate legislation strengthens the security certificate system and continues to allow for indefinite imprisonment, secret evidence and the threat of deportation to countries where individuals face probable torture or death;

Because history shows that when due process and fundamental justice is denied to a specific group of people it is soon denied to trade unionists and others.