The Immigration and Refugee Protection Act allows the administrative detention of foreign nationals, and sometimes of permanent residents. Canada has three centres administered by the Canada Border Services Agency. In addition, provincial prisons have for a long time been used to detain persons considered high risk, but also others who are not.
You may be aware that all the provinces have announced that they will be putting an end to the practice that allows detention of this kind in their institutions. Although the practice continues in some provinces, it will end soon in keeping with these announcements.
In response to this, the federal government wants to allow detention in federal institutions. The claim is that it will be for high-risk individuals, but that's not necessarily the case.
As these administrative detentions are tied to immigration rather than justice, we believe that the agency should be able to administer these detentions itself through appropriate supervision or control.