Jason Kenney: Human Smuggling

Opposition Parties Dept: We stated that, It is inconceivable that the government was not advised that key elements of Bill C-49 were unlawful. It is more likely that the government did not care. The government may instead have anticipated . . . that the opposition parties would vote down the bill as bad policy and bad law, in which case the Conservative government could get political mileage out of saying they wanted to get tough on smuggling, but were thwarted by an opposition that was soft on smuggling, according to The Star. Predictability is not a substitute for integrity and on Dec. 3, 2010, my colleague Sean Rehaag and I published an opinion piece in the Star about the Conservative government's anti-smuggling bill. The bill proposed to authorize Immigration Minister Jason Kenney to arbitrarily designate and automatically detain migrants for a year without any legal review. On March 30, Jason Kenney was quoted as follows: I want to call upon Mr. Ignatieff, who is here right now, to explain why he's soft on human smuggling, why he opposed the adoption of our bill to crack down on human smuggling. As reported in the news.
@t political mileage, immigration minister