Few things.
One given some actual cost already provided, which even in the best of times. Budgets running surpluses, god forbid balanced. Would be an enormous strain…
We can safely say, the number is staggering.And it’s not just Toronto proper being crushed. Toronto just happens to have the most things, needed, and that draws people.
Worth the read.
Durham, York and Peel regions echo budget shortfalls for sheltering newcomers, as Toronto’s own clash with the federal government leaves asylum seekers sleeping on the streets.
www.thestar.com
Some actual data.
Refugee numbers 2011
Asylum claimants by year – 2011 - 2016
www.canada.ca
2019
Asylum claimants by year – 2011 - 2016
www.canada.ca
2023 (not quite done)
Asylum claimants by year – 2023
www.canada.ca
And let’s not forget these are just the number of those being “caught” at our Swiss cheese border.
First of all, the border isn't "swiss Cheese". Let me explain.
This has got nothing to do with your buddy, Trudeau. There is an international treaty called the UNCHR. Is was sponsored by notorious woketard righties John Diefenbaker, DD Eisenhower and Winston Churchill. It provides that a receiving country MUST LEGALLY provide a hearing into EVERY person who shows up and claims to be persecuted. ALL Canadian, UK and US governments have honoured this since 1953, 70 years ago. So, someone turns up and says "I'm persecuted" and has a story which brings them within the limited legal definition of "persecuted person", they get admitted for the purposes of a hearing.
70 years ago, Britain and France owned most of the Third World and no one thought there would be an asylum claimant who wasn't an intellectual from Eastern Europe. But after 30 or 40 years, the idea of claiming asylum had spread vastly.
And this led to becoming a political football for the anti immigrant Righties.
So the choice is: Does your country officially tell the UN "Fuck it! Let 'em all die and their kids and wives as well!" and take the vast amount of humiliation and international shame that would entail. Or do you keep accepting claimants. NOTE: - The claimants get a hearing and the hearing is rigorous and if they fail, they get kicked out. They don't get to automatically stay.
So the border is "Swiss Cheese" for legal reasons set up 70 years ago by the Right, not because Trudeau wears orange socks.
Personally, Canada has no reason to cancel the UNCHR. It's letting in large #'s of legal immigrants each year and the refugees are just a small increment. Canada is remote and it's difficult to get here. And Canada is an immigrant-friendly country.
Britain is remote and difficult to get to, but the population is more homogenous and resentful. But they should probably just continue the UNCHR.
America is the most exposed because of the long border with Mexico. OTOH, refugee claims and illegal entry into the US is cyclical and could well drop off to a small fraction of its current numbers.
So blaming Biden and Trudeau is just another Rightie horseshit stunt, like blaming the CA legislature's reclassification of petty theft as a misdemeanour for the rise in crime. The righties ferret around for some reason to blame the non rightie government for something that their base dislikes, regardless of how illogical it is.