I appreciated hearing your comments on the compassionate nature of Canada and how historically we have taken in people from all around the world who've come here as refugees.
I want to move on to you, Ezat, with a question.
As you were talking, I could feel the pain that you still live with from your own personal experiences. I'm trying to imagine what it would be like for a group of people who are escaping that fire you described. There's a fire burning all around them and they're trying to escape that fire. That's the situation, whether it's in a refugee camp or a place where the refugees' lives are in danger and they have to escape. They get on a boat and they arrive on the shores of Canada. What kind of a psychological impact will there be on those people when the first thing they face is detention in a jail?
We're not talking about five-star hotels here—even the detention centres. What we are talking about, even today from the regular numbers that were given to us by officials from government, is that these people on a daily basis still have to be put in provincial jails because there aren't enough immigration detention centres.
I would like you to describe for us what you feel would be the impact on people being imprisoned upon arriving after fleeing from a burning fire.