OUTRAGEOUS! This is a violation! It must be STOPPED! Jail the perpetrators of these injustices... Using government documents obtained through Access to Information and Privacy Act requests, the report found that release rates also vary widely – between 5% and 38% – for individual decision makers. Valerie Currie, for instance, ruled on 443 detention reviews but only released 21 migrants (a 5.0% release rate), while Maria-Louise Cote oversaw 303 and released 100 migrants (a substantially higher release rate of 33%). The report details regional variations as well. The chances of a detainee being released in the central region (Ontario minus Ottawa and Kingston) is 9%, while the chances of release are 24% in eastern Canada and 27% in western Canada. In the five year period 2009–2013, detainees were held for an average of 10 days in Pacific Canada but were jailed for 38 days on average in Northern Ontario. Such an explanation is particularly pressing since Canada detains migrants indefinitely – using the detention review as a justification. While the United Nations recommends a “presumptive period” – which usually lasts between 90 and 180 days – many migrants in Canadian detention centres are held for months, years, and some for close to ten years. But since the detention reviews occur no longer than 30 days since the last, according to the report, “the Canadian government insists that immigrants are not held indefinitely but simply for a month at a time, with the opportunity to be released at every review.” themainlander/2014/06/09/boycotting-immigration-detention-in-canada/
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