We don't see the enhanced detention provisions in this bill as constituting a penalty. To the contrary, the purpose is limited to being able to better identify individuals who have arrived in large-scale smuggling operations, because operationally it's very difficult when you have 500 or several hundred showing up at once, who have typically destroyed their documents, to identify them if at the same time you're constantly going back to the IRB for 30-day detention reviews. That really consumes the majority of our resources to keep arguing for ongoing detention, rather than on focusing on the people who actually are.
Maybe we could ask Mr. Thérrien from the Department of Justice to comment further on this.