Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International Canada launched the #WelcomeToCanada campaign in October 2021 to pressure provinces to end the practice. Since then, hundreds of advocates, lawyers, healthcare providers, and faith leaders, alongside people who had been in immigration detention as well as former cabinet ministers and dozens of leading social justice organizations, have called for an end to immigration detention in provincial jails. The use of provincial jails for immigration detention is punitive, inconsistent with international human rights standards, and devastating to people’s mental health. People with disabilities also experience discrimination throughout the immigration detention process. In August, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention released its report on its visit to Canada, expressing alarm at plans to use federal correctional facilities for immigration detention.