The Globe and Mail - Judge assailed at Zundel hearing

Holocaust denier's lawyer criticizes 'Draconian' security certificate process 'that has no place in a democracy' Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel's 18-month deportation hearing ended on a fiery note yesterday, as his lawyer accused the Federal Court judge hearing the case of actively "embracing" the extraordinary secrecy provisions that surrounded it. In what was likely Mr. Zundel's final appearance in a Canadian courtroom, defence lawyer Peter Lindsay said he makes no apologies for harshly criticizing Mr. Justice Pierre Blais. (...) Mr. Zundel, a landed immigrant since 1958, has no right of appeal if Judge Blais concludes there was nothing "unreasonable" about a deportation order approved in early 2003 by two federal ministers. He would be deported immediately to Germany to face prosecution for the offence of Holocaust denial. Mr. Zundel has been in and out of Canadian courtrooms since the early 1980s over his persistent publication of material depicting the Holocaust as a myth propagated to vilify Germans and justify massive war reparations.