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Reminder that Canada’s Border Services Agency (CBSA) is under the Jurisdiction of the Federal Government.

Contact Justin Trudeau, here:

https://www.ourcommons.ca/Parliamentarians/en/members/Justin-Trudeau(58733)

Contact Ralph Goodale, Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness:

https://www.ourcommons.ca/Parliamentarians/en/ministries

Contact Ahmed Hussen, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship:

https://www.ourcommons.ca/Parliamentarians/en/members/Ahmed-Hussen(89020)

Before you contact your MP or your local municipal government (which you CAN do):

– Find out if there are any safe city initiatives near to you & if they need any help with training sessions, spreading the word, etc.

– Find out where the nearest immigrant detention centre is to you and, if it is more than an hour away, look instead to your nearest pre-trial facility for more information about where temporary or off-site holding cells are located.

-*if you have time on your hands* FOIs! See if there are any workshops near you on how to file a Freedom of Information request. If you are not able to find data that should be publicly available to you online ie. number of children detained by CBSA for longer than 3 months in a given year, file a request.

Be prepared to give your local representatives a quick summary of what you’ve found is going on in your municipality. The more you say it the easier it’ll be to summarise quickly.

Thanks for the info!

Also I forgot to add that you can find your Member of Parliament (MP) here:

https://www.ourcommons.ca/Parliamentarians/en/members

If you don’t know who your MP is, there is a search bar (Name, Postal Code, Constituency), which you can use to find out.