Ottawa is putting $212 million more toward interim housing for people claiming asylum in Canada, including about $97 million for Toronto.
A homeless man sleeps in a bus shelter in Toronto on Friday , March 11, 2022.
Sean Fraser, the minister of immigration, refugees and citizenship announced new funding Tuesday under the Interim Housing Assistance Program, which he said will be extended until March 31, 2024. The new money is on top of previous funding of nearly $700 million, including more than $215 million for Toronto, Fraser said.
“If you bring new people in – I’ve been encouraging them, by the way, to bring new people in, because we need to fill 300,000 jobs – you have to step up,” Ford said at an unrelated press conference in the Niagara Region.“Shelters are number one, working permits are number two,” he said. “I’m going to be all over the federal government to make sure that they get these people back on their feet. You can’t just drop people and say, ‘OK, we’re all done.’ It doesn’t work that way.
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