Canada’s immigration detention program to get $138M makeover
Canada’s Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale made the $138-million announcement Monday morning at the Laval Immigration Holding Centre. He said the objective is to make detention a last resort.
“The government is anxious to address the weaknesses that exist and to do better.”
The government’s reform objectives include:
Increasing the availability of alternatives to detention.
Reducing the use of provincial jails for immigration detention to prevent the interaction of immigration and criminal detainees.
Avoiding the detention of minors in the facilities as much as possible.
Improving physical and mental health care offered to those detained.
Maintaining ready access to facilities for agencies such as the Red Cross, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees as well as legal and spiritual advisers.
Increasing transparency.
▻http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/goodale-immigration-laval-1.3721125
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