A community group in Ontario's Niagara region says it was already dealing with a tripling of requests for assistance from asylum seekers before Ottawa recently began transferring more migrants to the province from Quebec.
Deanna D'Elia, the general manager of employment and immigrant services at the YMCA of Niagara, said her organization provides language assessments and helps new arrivals register their children in school and access other community resources. It began seeing a rise in demand around seven months ago.
Adrienne Jugley, the commissioner of community services for the region, said the number of asylum seekers staying in hotels rented by the federal government increased progressively toward the end of the year. Jugley, who believes Niagara Falls was selected because it has a large number of hotels, said her biggest concern is where people will stay once they leave the federally funded hotels, as her region lacks affordable housing.
"However, as the strain on resources in Quebec and Ontario continues, IRCC is now in the process of working with other provinces and municipalities to identify new destinations that have the capacity to accommodate asylum seekers," spokeswoman Isabelle Dubois said in an email. The Quebec government has repeatedly called for the federal government to close the Roxham Road crossing, saying it doesn't have the capacity to accept more migrants.
"We have a combined tsunami from the wave of asylum seekers and the continuing inflation," he said in an interview Thursday.
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