Does the open court principle require that information be placed in the public file?
Canada (Federal), Canada
The following excerpt is from Charkaoui, Re, 2009 FC 342 (CanLII), [2010] 3 FCR 67:
On this point, my colleague, Madam Justice Dawson, in Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness and the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration v. Almrei, Harkat, Jaballah, and Mahjoub, 2009 FC 240, at paragraph 60, recently stated that the open court principle requires that the information be placed in the public files:
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