Canadian security certificates require only potential threat, not actual risk

Evidence

Those subject to security certificates need not pose any actual security risk, but merely have to be shown to have possibly been a member of a terrorist organization, and to have the potential to engage in terrorist acts. It is the notion of prevention, the detaining and deporting of individuals before they have committed a crime, that best sums up the post-9/11 changes and the increasing logic that law must be suspended in the interests of national security. — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 82

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Agamben’s state-of-exception literature and preventive-detention debates in the reader’s political-theory reading.
• CANDY: A striking, shareable fact: Canada can detain you for possibly having the potential to commit terrorism, no crime needed.