Province says it will no longer hold immigration detainees for Ottawa ableg abpoli
In a tersely worded statement Wednesday, Public Safety and Emergency Services Minister Mike Ellis urged other provinces to join Alberta in refusing to assist the federal government in detaining newcomers, calling the policy unjust.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Calgary SUN, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
Following a 2006 pact with Ottawa, Alberta agreed to hold immigration detainees in provincial correctional centres, but Ellis’s office said the UCP government served notice in 2020 that it would end the arrangement on March 31, 2021. Between April 1 and Oct. 31 of 2022, the province says it held an average of 15 detainees daily in its facilities — a number that’s been slightly higher in recent years.
During that time, 63 people under the policy were detained in Alberta in provincial custody, the fourth most in the country.Alberta is not the first province to seek an end to the detention agreement. Last July, B.C.’s NDP government gave CBSA one year to dissolve the pact, with human rights activists saying they hoped the move would influence other provinces.Activists, physicians and immigration lawyers have denounced the detention policy, saying it violates the most vulnerable’s human rights.
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