Thank you very much for the question.
It is very clear that the mandatory detention is a violation of the Canadian charter—sections 7, 9, 10 and 12 in particular. The Supreme Court has already made a relevant ruling in the Charkaoui case. The chief justice spoke very eloquently when she said it was unacceptable to detain immigrants to Canada for an extended period of time without granting them the right to a judicial review.
You know that the current legislation provides mechanisms for detaining individuals if there are doubts about their identity. That is already in place. In addition, if people are suspected of being a threat to public safety, they are detained. However, judicial reviews are conducted to ensure that unlawfully detained people are released.
I think we would have to go back to the Second World War to find a similar situation in Canada, a democratic country. We would have to go back to the mass detentions of Canadians of Japanese origin. That was the last time, in Canada, that individuals were sent to concentration camps simply because they were of Japanese origin. We can draw a parallel between that situation and what the government is proposing in Bill C-31, and that is unacceptable.