Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Could I have the witness on immigration detention and the Food and Drugs Act, please?
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
In a recent inquest into the death of Abdurahman Ibrahim Hassan, a refugee with a lengthy history of mental illness, who died in a segregated cell in Canadian immigration detention in 2015, the jury's first recommendation was to stop the use of jails for detaining migrants. Immigration Minister Miller has insisted that federal prisons will be used only for “a very small segment of the [migrant] population”, which he has described as “not criminals” but “high-risk” individuals who often have “severe mental health problems”.
How do you respond to suggestions that correctional facilities are not appropriate mental health care facilities for these people?