Canada's crackdown on human smugglers is legitimate and defensible under the charter, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney said.
Kenney appeared before a Senate committee Monday to defend Bill C-31, the government's major reforms to the immigration and refugee system.
Included in the proposed legislation are a host of measures meant to send a message to human smugglers that Canada will no longer be an easy mark for their syndicates.
The bill would implement mandatory minimum sentences and higher penalties for human smugglers. It would also have mandatory detentions for people coming into Canada through smuggling operations for two weeks without review and would ban them from applying for permanent residency for five years.
Critics have raised concerns about those provisions, warning that some smuggling reforms may not comply with requirements under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
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