Canada Border Services Agency and Federal Government

circumstances: It a disturbing total, and it made worse by the fact that their names, the circumstances of their deaths and why they were being detained are kept secret by the agency, according to Toronto Star. It as if they didn’t exist. As of this week that the number of people detained by the Canada Border Services Agency who have died in custody since 2000. This should not be allowed in a supposedly open, accountable, caring democracy. That the least the federal government should do. So it no surprise that the announcement of the most recent death has led to yet another round of calls by human rights advocates for more transparency within the agency, the creation of an oversight body to hold it to account, and the establishment of an outside body to investigate deaths in custody. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.