{"id":106189,"date":"2022-10-20T16:39:39","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T20:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/alberta-ends-cbsa-contract-will-no-longer-hold-immigration-detainees-in-provincial-jails\/"},"modified":"2022-10-20T16:39:39","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T20:39:39","slug":"alberta-ends-cbsa-contract-will-no-longer-hold-immigration-detainees-in-provincial-jails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/alberta-ends-cbsa-contract-will-no-longer-hold-immigration-detainees-in-provincial-jails\/","title":{"rendered":"Alberta Ends CBSA contract, Will No Longer Hold Immigration Detainees In Provincial Jails"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alberta is reportedly ending its contract with the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) to detain immigrants in provincial jails, making it the third province to do so.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Earlier this year, British Columbia, became the first Canadian province to take steps to stop the practice of housing migrants in provincial jails for the CBSA.<\/p>\n

In mid-September, Nova Scotia followed suit.<\/p>\n

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Advocates who have been calling on Ottawa to end housing of IRPA detainees in provincial jails across Canada praised the three provinces\u2019 decisions.<\/p>\n

\u201cA year ago today, we launched the #WelcomeToCanada campaign<\/a> to end immigration detention in provincial jails. Since then, British Columbia, Nova Scotia and Alberta have cancelled detention contracts with CBSA,\u201d tweeted Samer Muscati, associate director of the disability rights division of Human Rights Watch.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s time the federal government cancels the rest.\u201d<\/p>\n

The provincial government in Alberta has yet to either confirm or deny it is planning to or already has cancelled its contract with the CBSA as reported by CBC News<\/i>.<\/p>\n

The latest data from the CBSA shows that during the year that ended on March 31, 2021 there were 111 migrants detained by the border services agency in Alberta, another 310 detained in British Columbia, and 14 in Nova Scotia.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

That was during the COVID-19 pandemic when immigration was much lower than it is now.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In the last full year prior to the start of the pandemic, 187 migrants were detained in Alberta, 1,818 in British Columbia, and 10 in Nova Scotia during the year that ended on March 31, 2019.<\/p>\n

Detained Migrants Are a Tiny Portion Of All Foreign Nationals Coming To Canada<\/h3>\n

Those detained represent a very small percentage of all foreign nationals coming to Canada \u2013 only a smidgeon more than half a tenth of a per cent – with only 1,605 detained out of almost three million foreign nationals, exactly 2,980,459, during the most recent year for which data is available. That\u2019s the year that ended on March 31 last year.<\/p>\n

During that year, 40 per cent of the migrants detained were held in provincial jails across Canada under contracts the provincial governments had with the CBSA.<\/p>\n

On any given day during that year, Canada was detaining an average of 133 migrants and 328 of them were held for less than a day. Another 143 were detained for two or three days.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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