Goodale: Detention and Immigration

goodale: On Monday, Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale announced the federal government would be pouring $138 million into upgrading immigration detention facilities across Canada, according to Rabble. Two detention centres, in Quebec and British Columbia, will also be replaced. Chip in to keep stories like these coming. The announcement comes after Goodale refused to meet with hunger-striking immigration detainees in two maximum security Ontario prisons. It should end, not be expanded by throwing over $100 million at it," Tings Chak, organizer with End Immigration Detention Network , told rabble in a text message. The detainees held an 18-day hunger strike to demand a meeting with Goodale and call for an end to Canada practice of indefinite detention of migrants, which the UN condemned in a report last August. "Immigration detention, including in immigration holding centres, is imprisonment without charges or trial. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.