The mayors of three Ontario cities are calling on the federal government to help them support asylum seekers being transferred to their communities after…
The department said 7,131 people have been transferred to Ontario communities so far — 4,313 to Niagara Falls, 1,396 to Cornwall, 720 to Windsor and 702 to Ottawa.
“They didn’t want this to be public so we thought that’s fine, we’ll do our part. Then it quickly went to 300, then 687, 2,000, and it’s gotten much bigger,” he said.Article content “In this case, the initial communication wasn’t there,” Towndale said in a phone interview. “We were having meetings with IRCC on a regular basis but they weren’t really giving us updates to their plan.”
In Niagara Falls, Diodati said there are concerns about fewer hotel rooms being available for tourists as summer approaches. “There’s a lot of hysteria that’s been generated,” he said. “Part of this is the fact that these are poor, racialized Black, brown people who are walking in the downtowns of these tourist centres.”
Dilkens said, however, that having asylum seekers choose to settle in Windsor would be a benefit for the city.
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