Where Are You Getting the Money, Marc?

There is no money for this:

Immigration Minister Marc Miller said Wednesday his government will provide an additional $362.4 million to provinces and cities to house thousands of asylum claimants who are coming to Canada in record numbers.

Miller has been under pressure from both Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow and Quebec Premier François Legault to provide more funding for housing, as asylum claimants end up staying in shelters as they wait for their claims to be processed.

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Chow has said she will be forced to add a six per cent property tax hike on top of the 10.5 per cent hike she already has planned for the city if the federal government doesn’t provide $250 million.

Legault has called on the government to provide $470 million to his province to cover costs for previous years with additional funding on top of that. Miller said $100 million of the $362.4 million will go to Quebec. He said a number for Toronto has been decided, but he was not prepared to reveal it yet.

Legault has also demanded the government slow the number of asylum claimants and send more people to other parts of the country. Miller said they are working on ways to encourage claimants to move to other places in Canada, but they can’t force people.

“We can’t treat people like cattle. They have their choice of where they go. They have rights when they get to this country and they get pulled towards big commercial centers, including Montreal and Toronto,” he said.

That is all that people are to you, you vile trafficker.