Hamilton Spectator: Detention and Julian Jubenville

hamilton spectator: Gary Yokoyama / The Hamilton Spectator file photo By Brendan Kennedy Staff Reporter Wed., May 17, 2017 Facing a constitutional challenge and widespread criticism from humanitarian organizations, government lawyers defended Canada's immigration detention system in Federal Court on Tuesday, saying indefinite detention is necessary to ensure public safety, according to Toronto Star. The notion of indefinite detention is a construct, said C. Julian Jubenville, one of the government's lawyers, who added that even when a detention has been long and its end is unclear, continuing to hold the detainee could still be justified in order to protect the public. Lawyers for the man who was deported to Jamaica last year are in Federal Court this week seeking a six-month limit on immigration detention and other changes to the system. There is a purpose to detention that involves public safety, he said. They are calling on the court to impose a six-month limit on immigration detention and demanding other changes to the system. Lawyers representing former immigration detainee Alvin Brown, who spent five years in a maximum-security jail before he was deported to Jamaica last year, are in court this week arguing that Canada's immigration detention system is unconstitutional because it violates the Charter of Rights and Freedoms by allowing arbitrary and indefinite detention as well as cruel and unusual treatment. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.