More than 20 community advocates are calling for the head of Toronto’s shelter system to step down amid a worsening crisis involving refugees camped out on a downtown sidewalk with nowhere to go.
About 30 refugees have been regularly sleeping on the sidewalk outside of the intake centre at Richmond and Peter streets for weeks since the city started referring refugees to federal programs rather than admitting them to the municipal shelter system in June.“The City is feeding into a xenophobic narrative that refugees are a burden on the system and claiming misleading increases in the number of refugees.
The letter noted that the city is “telling refugees seeking shelter to call Service Canada,” a move advocates call a “cruel wild-goose chase.”“Failing your immediate resignation, we call on new Mayor Olivia Chow to initiate your firing,” the letter continues. The city has accused the federal government of not providing enough money to house refugees, which is a federal responsibility.“Without funding from the Government of Canada, the City will have to refer eligible asylum seekers to programs and services available to them through the federal government,” the city said in May.
“It's our job. It's our Canadian dream for us to protect and to send the message that no that's not the welcome we want to provide them,” he said.
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