Human Trafficking: Immigration

Jason Kenney Dept: So it's no surprise that Immigration Minister Jason Kenney has been musing about imposing new mandatory minimums for human trafficking, according to Vancouver Sun. It's been almost a year since the Ocean Lady arrived in British Columbia carrying 76 Tamil migrants. No one involved in that voyage is facing trafficking or smuggling charges. As for the more recent arrival, the Sun Sea, the RCMP is still reportedly trying to sort out the perpetrators from the victims -- if, indeed, that's an accurate way to characterize the relationship between the passengers and whoever took their money and this Conservative government has never encountered a law-and-order problem that it didn't want to solve with mandatory-minimum sentences. It's a facile answer to a complicated problem, a way to score political points and look tough. But there's precious little reason to believe that mandatory minimums would make the slightest bit of difference. We can tinker with sentences all we like; it's moot if the offenders never see the inside of a courtroom. As reported in the news.
@t mandatory minimum sentences, immigration minister