       other (34 stateless persons) single journey form (33 stateless persons) no travel document (11 stateless persons) alien registration (7 stateless persons) facilitation visa (2 stateless persons) permanent resident card (1 stateless person) seaman’s book (1 stateless person) Of removal orders issued against stateless persons from 2003-2014, the following reasons were provided:  criminality – serious (157 stateless persons)  non-compliance (39 stateless persons)  none (28 stateless persons)  criminality – lesser (6 stateless persons)  misrepresentation (4 stateless persons)  organised crime (3 stateless persons)  human rights violations (1 stateless person) It is not clear what is meant by ‘none’, however, it is clear that serious criminality is the main reason stateless individuals are issued removal orders by CBSA. The CBSA does not record the legal status or detention of removed stateless persons in the countries to which they have been removed. Assessment While the CBSA does collect and record data on ‘unknown nationality’ and ‘statelessness’ separately, CBSA does not define ‘statelessness’. It is not clear whether CBSA collects data on country of last habitual residence, or if this data is not reported in the detention database. The number of days in detention for stateless persons in Canada declined steadily from 5,120 in 2003 to 1,759 in 2014. As these figures refer only to the number of days in detention and not the number of stateless persons in detention, this decline can be misleading as it does not indicate whether more stateless persons were detained in 2003 for shorter periods, or whether fewer stateless persons were detained for a longer period in 2014. The utilization of the number of detention days as the basis upon which other detention indicators are grouped is problematic. Detention day statistics can be misleading as they do not identify data for individual stateless persons, but instead only the collective number of days stateless persons are in detention. Additionally, it is impossible to decipher where individual stateless persons are detained in Canada, where their detention was initiated, or the exact periods of time for which they are detained. In addition, conditions for release data that reflect detention days instead of number of persons masks the accurate number of persons in detention and the periods of time they spent in detention prior to their release. 17