End Canadian support for ICE

AI summary

Petitioners ask the House of Commons to end Canadian support for ICE by cancelling federal funding and contracts, revoking ICE offices, denying armoured and surveillance export permits, and terminating the Safe Third Country Agreement.

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Official petition

Petition to the House of Commons United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), an agency of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, has been widely documented as engaging in serious human rights abuses, including arbitrary detention, family separation, detention of children, medical neglect, and deaths in custody; Canadians, including Canadian children, have been detained in ICE custody; Canadian companies have supplied goods, services, technology, and security services to ICE or the U.S. Department of Homeland Security; The Government of Canada has provided public funding, contracts, subsidies, or export permits to companies that contract with ICE or the U.S. Department of Homeland Security; and Canada has obligations under the Arms Trade Treaty and the Export and Import Permits Act to prevent exports where there is a substantial risk of serious human rights violations. We, the undersigned, citizens or residents of Canada, call upon the House of Commons to: 1. Cancel federal subsidies, grants, and public funding to Canadian companies that contract with United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement or the U.S. Department of Homeland Security; 2. Cancel federal government contracts with companies that provide goods or services to ICE or the U.S. Department of Homeland Security; 3. Deny or revoke export permits for armoured vehicles, surveillance technology, and other controlled goods destined for ICE; 4. Revoke permission for ICE to operate offices on Canadian soil; 5. Terminate the Safe Third Country Agreement pursuant to Article 10; and 6. Take the necessary steps to ensure that Canada does not support, enable, or legitimize human rights abuses committed by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Government response

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