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Privatization of removals

Resolution number
13
Whereas
  1. CIC has been using P&I, a private company, to remove African nationals from Canada to Africa;
  2. The deportees have been forcibly detained and unlawfully confined by a private company;
Therefore be it resolved

That the CCR:

  1. Write to the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration to:
    a) Condemn the use of P&I for removal of deportees;
    b) Demand to know the legal basis for using P&I;
  2. Demand that the Minister confirm in writing that the practice of using private agents for removals will cease;
  3. Continue to investigate P&I and Citizenship and Immigration Canada's contracting out of removals;
  4. Investigate all possible human rights violations, possible complaints and legal challenges to such practices.
Subject
Removals
Working Group
Inland Protection