Immigration Detention: Canada and Detention

immigration detention: Superior Court Justice Ian Nordheimer called the lengthy detention unacceptable and said that it violated Ali's charter rights, according to Toronto Star. One thing is clear, and that is that Canada cannot purport to hold someone in detention forever, Nordheimer said, reading from his decision. Brendan Kennedy / Toronto Star By Brendan Kennedy Staff Reporter Fri., April 28, 2017 In a forceful rebuke to Canada's practice of indefinite immigration detention, an Ontario court has ordered the release of Kashif Ali, a West African man who spent more than seven years in a maximum-security jail because Canada was unable to deport him. Mr. Ali, 51, was the longest-serving immigration detainee still being held. Ali has not been convicted of a criminal offence, and yet he has been held for over seven years in detention facilities, facilities that, if he had been convicted of a criminal offence, would have entitled him to a credit of more than 10-and-a-half years against any sentence that might be imposed. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.