You won't find out you're on it till you get the airport, you'll never know why your name's is there and it's exceedingly hard to get off it once you're listed.

Canada's no-fly list duplicates many of abuses we've seen with security certificates. Yet the measure will not be debated in Parliament, as the government believes it has already has the authority to put it in place.

Faisal Kutty is a Toronto lawyer and writer. He's also Vice Chair of the Canadian Council on American Islamic Relations.

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