Thank you.
The other comment I wanted to make about detention was in relation to some evidence you got about the monitoring of detention conditions by UNHCR and the Red Cross. I think it was Mr. Davies who asked whether the Red Cross is paid by the Canadian government to do the detention monitoring. Mr. Linklater, of CIC, I believe responded that the Red Cross is not, and that was the end of that conversation.
What I wanted to make sure this committee knows, though, is that the monitoring of detention conditions by the Red Cross is done on a strictly confidential basis. So while it's true, I understand, that the Red Cross regularly monitors the jails where immigrants and refugees are detained, they report back to immigration and CBSA on a confidential basis. There's absolutely no public reporting about their findings. There's no transparency in the process. So while on paper it looks as if there's some degree of accountability, in fact there's not. Obviously a private and confidential report to the government about its own detention practices, in the absence of any public disclosure, is not accountability. I wanted to make sure that this committee was aware of that.