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Immigration Minister Marc Miller confirmed to Radio-Canada that the federal government will be using its penitentiaries to hold some foreign nationals for immigration purposes.
He said those detainees will be separated from the prison population, but that both groups could be sharing services.
"It would be separate housing and it would not be in the general population, because they are not criminals," Miller said, following Radio-Canada's story on the government's proposal buried at the bottom of the federal budget tabled Tuesday.
The Trudeau government wrote it wants to "enable the use of federal correctional facilities for the purpose of high-risk immigration detention."
The statement has angered human rights organizations, some calling the plan "completely unacceptable," as reported by Radio-Canada Wednesday.
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