Ontario Jails: Goodale Invitation

ontario jails: In fact, 17 of 50 detainees in two Ontario jails who ended a hunger strike in July responded to Goodale invitation conveyed to them by Canada Border Services Agency officials, according to Toronto Star. Syed Hussan, a member of the End Immigration Detention Network, told the Star that many wrote Goodale to make their individual case, and others did not. By Tonda Mac Charles Ottawa Bureau reporter Tues., Aug. 16, 2016 OTTAWA—Advocates for a group of hunger-striking immigration detainees were shocked Monday to hear Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale say none had replied to his request for details of why their detention was unfair. Many of the detainees refused to participate. They didn't know it came from Goodale office, Hussan said, adding many felt that, the onus is not on the detainee to prove why he shouldn't be in there. They didn't know what it was for. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.