“The change comes in response to concerns about using correctional facilities to hold people who haven’t been charged with a criminal offence, nor convicted of one.”
“The change comes in response to concerns about using correctional facilities to hold people who haven’t been charged with a criminal offence, nor convicted of one,” a press release from the province said.The province first told the federal government it would be severing that agreement in September 2020, but the federal government has asked to extend the agreement twice, until March 31, 2023.
A letter from Alberta’s public safety minister Mike Ellis added another three months so the federal government and CBSA can have time to transition out of their current practices and find a new place to house the detainees. “People who come to Canada for a fresh start and a new life deserve a better welcome than a jail cell while paperwork is sorted out,” said Ellis.The letter said the feds have until June 30 to find new arrangements in provincial facilities for CBSA detainees.
The province said the current agreement to keep immigration detainees in jail was signed in 2006. An average of 22 people per day were detained in this way in 2021-22, up from an average of 17 people per day in 2020-21, according to the province.Read more:
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