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To: Prime Minister Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada
Tell the Canadian Government: Stop Funding Companies Supporting Trump’s Human Rights Abuses
Immediately end your contracts with GardaWorld — the Canadian company staffing the infamous ICE immigration detention facility “Alligator Alcatraz” in the U.S.
Why is this important?
GardaWorld — a Canadian-based “private security company” — has million-dollar contracts to execute Trump's racist and inhumane immigration regime, which kidnaps people, tears families apart, and denies people due process.
This includes staffing the infamous ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) facility "Alligator Alcatraz", which has been described as an "oversized kennel" where people are held without cause, don't see sunlight, and are denied basic rights.
The Canadian government, meanwhile, is also quietly awarding federal contracts to GardaWorld — and has refused to commit to ending those contracts despite knowing the company’s role in these abuses.
The Code of Ethics of GardaWorld states that the company: "GardaWorld fully supports the principles enshrined in the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights." And yet:
- ICE and the U.S. government are currently being sued for a policy which allows ICE agents to arrest people for showing up to court and prevent them from pursuing their immigration cases
- Reports from more than two dozen facilities across 16 states from 2017 to 2019, found "negligent" medical care (including mental health care), "unsafe and filthy" conditions, racist abuse of detainees, inappropriate pepper-spraying of mentally ill detainees and other problems that, in some cases, contributed to detainee deaths. And reports from 2017-2021 show the same patterns.
- ICE detention lacks basic due process protections found in criminal detention
- ICE and immigration detention are being used to deter use of First Amendment-protected free speech
This is Maple-washing at its worst. A company using its Canadian identity and reputation to legitimize its work while contributing to a brutal system of detention and deportation.
And yet, the Canadian government continues doing business with GardaWorld. That's OUR money the Canadian government is using through the public purse to fund and legitimize these abuses.
Canada must take a stand. No more contracts. No more complicity. Sign the petition now to demand the Canadian Government end contracts with GardaWorld.