In parliament this week, Joan Ryan MP introduced a bill, supported by politicians from all sides, which would
improve immigration detention and introduce stronger safeguards for survivors of torture and other forms of violence.
Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Ralph Goodale announced last August an investment of $ 138 million to
improve and minimize the use of
immigration detention, including expanding alternatives to
detention and strengthening partnerships with the Red Cross and United Nations (which in 2015 issued a report saying that Canada's treatment of
immigration detainees was cruel and unusual and resulted in arbitrary
detention).