Canada Border Services Agency and Marie-Claude Landry

: Marie-Claude Landry wants a watchdog for the Canada Border Services Agency. Since the border agency was established in 2003, 11 people have died in custody — two in federal holding centres and nine in provincial facilities, according to the agency, according to Huffington Post Canada. The two most recent deaths happened in the span of a week in March, reigniting calls for more scrutiny of the organization, which has many of the powers of a police service. The Canada Border Services Agency detains people who are considered a flight risk or a danger to the public, those who arrive in very large groups, and newcomers whose identities cannot be confirmed. In each case, the border agency issued a brief statement without the individual name or information about how they died. During a teleconference Thursday, several human rights and refugee groups challenged that claim. An agency spokeswoman said the federal Privacy Act prevented the release of details. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.