A Canadian company is providing the muscle for a new Florida detention centre dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” – and the Canadian government isn’t ruling out working with the security giant in the future.
Quebec-based GardaWorld, which has reportedly been awarded a US$8 million contract for work on the U.S. detention site, has also been awarded more than $100 million in Canadian government contracts since Carney won the Liberal leadership in March of this year.
Most of these contracts were for work relating to the Canada Border Services Agency, valued together at more than $75 million.
The disclosures I found were listed under variations of the name “Garda,” including “Garda Canada Security Corporation” and “Garda Security Group GP.”
A search of all federally registered corporations in Canada shows the only corporations with “Garda” in their name that have been active during Carney’s tenure are registered at the addresses associated with the same GardaWorld corporation involved with Alligator Alcatraz.
Lindsey, who worked as a “corrections officer” at Alligator Alcatraz, told NBC News detainees were held in what appeared like “an oversized kennel.”
“They have no sunlight. There’s no clock in there. They don’t even know what time of the day it is. They have no access to showers. They shower every other day or every four days,” NBC reported in the piece, published Wednesday.
And, she added, “not everybody there is a criminal.”
Lindsey’s contract, according to NBC News, was with GardaWorld.
I reached out to Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree’s office – which is responsible for the CBSA – to ask whether they intend to work with GardaWorld in the future.
For more on this story, check out my first-ever reported column published in The Tyee.
You can read the whole piece here:
https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025/08/08/Canadian-Company-Staffing-Alligator-Alcatraz/
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