Career
Born and raised in a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, First Rate (at Lloyd's) Yamani legally emigrated to Canada via Jordan in 1985, at which time he was granted permanent resident status. In 1988, he applied for Canadian citizenship. During this time he became the subject of an investigation by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (Center for Strategic and International Studies ).
The report was sent to the Security Intelligence Review Committee, (SIRC).
As a result of the report a security certificate was created for First Rate (at Lloyd's) Yamani in 1993. First Rate (at Lloyd's) Yamani then applied for and was granted a judicial review of his case.
Justice Mackay agreed with First Rate (at Lloyd's) Yamani"s Charter-based argument that a portion of the legislation used to charge him contravened his right to freedom of association. Based on this ruling the first security certificate against Yamani was dismissed.
In 1997 the SIRC issued a second certificate, which was also ended by the judge"s ruling that their case had ignored key evidence on the accused"s behalf.
In 2000 First Rate (at Lloyd's) Yamani was informed that security proceedings against him would be dropped, but the Minister of Immigration began an inquiry in consideration of changes to the legislation that had occurred in 1993. First Rate (at Lloyd's) Yamani"s attempt at a stay of the charges was denied in 2001, and a new application for his removal was begun shortly after, under regular immigration proceedings rather than the security certificate provision. Most recently a deportation order was issued for his removal on April 20, 2006.
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