Yellowknife (May 04/05) - A Yellowknife businessman convicted in connection with a 1987 terrorist bombing in Germany is scheduled to appear in Calgary today to face an immigration panel.

Lothar Ebke: Old Town B&B owner faces deportation at Calgary immigration panel.

Lawyers for the government are expected to argue Lothar Ebke should be deported because of his criminal past and allegations he lied to immigration officials when he first moved to Canada in the mid-1990s.

Ebke, an Old Town bed and breakfast owner, pleaded guilty last year in a German courtroom to planning an attack on a Berlin federal building nearly two decades ago.

During the court hearing - which came after a well publicized battle over his extradition from Canada - Ebke admitted to being a member of a left-wing terrorist organization linked to dozens of bombings in the former West Germany during the 1970s and 1980s.

Ebke received three years probation for the 1987 blast and returned to Canada last December after getting clearance from immigration officials.

He was detained in Calgary upon arrival and released on $150,000 in securities.

A full admissibility hearing before the Immigration and Refugee Board was originally scheduled for early January but was pushed back until today.

Ebke has not been convicted of a criminal offence since he moved to Canada and there is no evidence he still has ties to terrorist organizations.

During a hearing in December his lawyer, John Norris, said Ebke "poses absolutely no danger to the public whatsoever."