Editorial | Ontario needs to get out of the immigration detention business

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StarEditorial: Human rights organizations are rightly condemning the province and Ottawa for continuing to use provincial jails for immigration detention.

Immigration detention does “not align with our government’s commitment to upholding human rights standards or our dedication to pursuing social justice and equity for everyone.”

Yet as the trend moved from west to east and back again, it seemed to skip right by Ontario. Ontario’s continued practice of detaining immigrants has led human rights organizations and advocates to condemn the province and the federal government, and on Nov. 14, the participants beganThe campaign seeks an end to immigration detention in Canada and elsewhere, since the practice is at odds with even the most minimal standards of human rights and human decency.

The CBSA, which has broad and largely unchecked powers of arrest and detention, operates its own holding centres in British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec. But it also keeps a substantial minority of migrants in provincial jails through contracts with the provinces.

 

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