British Columbia has agreed to present Canada’s border company extra time to provide you with an alternative choice to holding immigration detainees within the province’s correctional centres, nearly a yr after the choice to finish the apply.
BC Corrections gave 12 months’ discover final July to the Canada Border Services Agency that it will cease the association, which Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth mentioned didn’t align with the provincial authorities’s dedication to human rights, social justice and fairness.
Farnworth has now accredited a “one-time” three-month extension of the deal till the top of October on the request of federal Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino, on the situation that no new detainees will likely be accepted after July 31.
The B.C. Public Safety Ministry says in a news launch that every one immigration detainees will likely be transferred from provincial jails to the border company’s custody on Nov. 1.
It says there are at the moment 12 immigration detainees in BC Corrections custody.
B.C.’s choice to finish the apply of holding immigration detainees in its correctional establishments had a domino impact, with New Brunswick, Quebec, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Nova Scotia all transferring to finish comparable contracts with the CBSA.
