Because self-reflection and accountability are for normal, well-adjusted people capable of competent governance:
Here is the scene at Toronto's refugee tents downtown right now.
— Efrain Flores Monsanto 🇨🇦🚛 (@realmonsanto) July 17, 2023
PM Trudeau's high immigration policy is now overflowing onto the hot streets.
City has no funds to deal with the issue, but want more people.
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Brian Lilley writes in the Sun : “It’s a different world at the corner of Peter and Richmond Sts. in downtown Toronto, one that doesn’t look like it should exist in this city.
Just steps away from the trendy shops and restaurants of Queen St. W., there’s a homeless encampment for refugee claimants on the sidewalk.
Some declared themselves refugees and were referred to social assistance agencies, which then referred them to show up at 129 Peter St. to try and get access to a city shelter. Right now, those shelters are full, with between 30-40% of spaces already taken up by refugees.”
Refugees are not a Toronto responsibility.
They are a federal responsibility.
Mayor Olivia Chow raised this issue Wednesday after she was sworn into the job, saying refugees are a federal — rather than municipal — responsibility, but the city has been stuck with the bill.
“We need at least $160 million from the federal government to help shelter them,” Chow said.
I would not count on that money coming any time soon. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau got what he wanted when he showed up at the airport welcoming refugees to Canada.
He got his photo op and he has moved on.
He has admitted that his strategy is to bring in immigrants and refugees and dump them on Toronto.
This is a serious problem in need of a hard-core solution.
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The number of people seeking asylum at Canada’s airports saw a massive spike in June with 4,350 people declaring themselves refugees upon arrival last month. That compares to just 2,750 seeking asylum in May of this year but even that is up dramatically from the 1,195 seeking asylum in the same time period a year earlier.
A total of 13,840 people have declared themselves refugees at airports across the country in the first six months of 2023. The total for all of 2022 was 17,170 and apart from last year, no year on record going back to 2011 has seen more than the 8,120 recorded in 2019.
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Now the Bank of Canada blames unfettered immigration for inflation rather than its poor insight, the bonuses it and other government-run banks give to their own employees, the reckless spending of the Liberal government, destruction of the resource industry, bloated civil service, high taxes that serve only to perpetuate the government, the failure to train, keep or attract actual skilled workers or even the system itself.
Anything than admit who and what is really to blame:
Demand created from a record influx of immigrants could be one factor keeping inflation higher for longer than anticipated, some economists say, though Bank of Canada governor Tiff Macklem doesn’t appear overly worried about it.
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