"Paul Copeland" is widely known as the defence attorney of security certificate detainee Mohamed Harkat, and an avid supporter of legal aid.[http://www.legalaid.on.ca/en/news/March22-2006a.asp Legal Aid Ontario - Newsroom]

Copeland co-founded the Law Union of Ontario in 1974 and was the Vice-President of the Criminal Lawyers Association from 1985-1991 and was for several years the co-president of the Association in Defence of the Wrongly Convicted until the fall of 2008. He has been a Bencher of the Law Society of Upper Canada since 1990. Since 1988 he has been active working with the democracy movement for Burma.

In June 2006 he argued in the Supreme Court of Canada on behalf of Mohamed Harkat that the security certificate procedure under the immigration and Refugee Protection Act violated the fundamental justice provisions of Section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedom. In February 2007 the Supreme Court of Canada unanimously agreed with that argument and held that the procedure violated fundamental justice.

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They should be, in my view, taking a very strong position that this is illegal activity and is inappropriate under the legislation in Ontario.

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We are now in situation of not knowing how it is going to be for him there. If he is in total isolation it is going to be very difficult for him.

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