From: "Janet Dench" <[email]> To: <[email]> Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 8:57 AM Subject: [CCRLIST] Gov't response on detention conditions for security certificate detainees The government has submitted its response to the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration's report on security certificate detention. The response is available at: link expired et en français à link expired The response rejects most of the recommendations, including all the more significant ones (e.g. to use criminal prosecutions rather than immigration procedures, to have the Correctional Investigator oversee the Kingston facility, to have a complaints mechanism for CBSA). They report having made some changes in line with some recommendations (e.g. improved telephone access, canteen facilities, suspending the head count - but they might start it up again at any time, to "count" the one remaining detainee). The only recommendation that they are really enthusiastic about is the one calling for adequate resources for police and intelligence services.

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