E/CN.4/2001/83/Add.1 page 14 centres she visited - in Montreal and Toronto - only their nationalities were given. She asked to visit the Prince George penitentiary, but was eventually unable to go there owing to her limited time in Vancouver and the distance involved. 51. At the Burnaby correctional centre, the Special Rapporteur had the opportunity to inspect the premises and to speak to a group of 12 women of Chinese origin, 10 of whom had arrived in Canada in one of the boats mentioned earlier. She found the premises to be in a satisfactory state and, when she arrived, the group was attending an English class. The CIC provided the services of two Chinese interpreters for the Special Rapporteur’s interview with the women. To begin with, the Special Rapporteur met the 12 women together, and they told her how they had arrived in Canada. Later, she interviewed three of them separately: one had come to Canada in one of the boats and two by air. 52. The Special Rapporteur found the first woman to be in a poor psychological state. She said that she had left the People’s Republic of China to escape its family planning policy, with the idea of coming to Canada to settle and bring over her husband and her two children. Her family had made all the arrangements for her journey to Canada with people claiming to be agents. When she had been detained in Canada, the woman said that she did not understand the situation she was in, because she maintained nobody had warned her of the danger of leaving China under those conditions. The Special Rapporteur received a letter from the group of detainees who had come by boat, also saying that they did not understand why they continued to be detained after so many months. During the interview with these women, one of them explained how the days were spent in the correctional centre. She said that whenever they cried or became more aggressive as a result of their feelings of anxiety and sadness due to the condition they were in, they were confined to their quarters. Another of them showed the Special Rapporteur a lump in her breast which was causing her considerable pain. When the Special Rapporteur asked her whether she had seen a doctor, she said she had once, a week earlier. The Special Rapporteur asked the warden to ensure that the women were provided with whatever medical and psychological assistance they needed. 53. The other two women said they had come to Canada by air. It had also been through their families that they had used the services of supposed agents for their journey to Canada. In their particular case, according to the information they supplied, these agents had a set of detailed rules explaining how they were to enter Canada. Apparently, the plane in which they were travelling landed in London, where the supposed agent transferred them to a flight to Vancouver. Once there, he told them to put all their passports together in an envelope. When they arrived in Vancouver, still according to the women interviewed, the supposed agent disappeared before the women had passed through immigration, so that they found themselves without documents. They were then detained by an immigration officer and later taken to the Burnaby centre. 54. Before leaving Vancouver, the Special Rapporteur attended a meeting called by several organizations working with migrants. The meeting consisted in an open discussion, at which the Special Rapporteur heard about both the good practices relating to immigration into Canada and about the real problems facing the migrants themselves. With regard to the case of the migrants