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Adil Charkaoui: Not a Question of Balance

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Length: 4 min 13 sec

License: 1

Year of Production: 2005

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From the autumn 2005 Measuring Security Measures tour

Adil Charkaoui spent 21 months in prison on a Security Certificate. He was released under strict bail conditions in February 2005. He tells an audience in Montreal that the question of how to balance national security with civil liberties is a false one, because national security can be secured without infringing on the human rights of individual people, rights that he believes to be absolute.