Toronto sagt, dass die Bundesfinanzierung für das Schutzsystem zu kurz wird
https://www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/politics/toronto-city-hall/article/chow-says-she-could-raise-property-taxes-at-least-2-per-cent-if-feds-dont-give-more-money-for-asylum-seekers/
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>Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow is warning that Toronto residents could see a bump in their taxes to account for shelter costs if the federal government doesn’t provide more cash for asylum seekers coming to the city.
Heavens to Murgatroyd!
>“We can either stop sheltering refugees claimants, leave them on the street, which will make homelessness worse, reversing the progress we made on reducing the number of encampments, or Torontonians will have to pay for it through their property taxes,” Chow said. “Neither is fair. So the government, the federal government, must fulfill its responsibility, which is taking care of refugees and refugees claimants.”
Sorry, but that’s the price you pay for being Canada’s first (and to my knowledge, only) Sanctuary City:
[https://moyal.com/first-canadian-sanctuary-city-announced/](https://moyal.com/first-canadian-sanctuary-city-announced/)
Torontonians should welcome the additional financial burden as a sign of progress and, I dunno…social justice?
> In a letter, Chow is asking council to make a request for the federal government to provide $107 million for 2025-2026 to support housing costs for refugee claimants and asylum seekers already in the city’s emergency shelter system.
> In a statement to CP24 last month, Immigration Refugees and Citizenship Canada said it has provided municipalities with $1.5 billion to offset the costs of shelter refugees and asylum claimants since 2017, including nearly $670 million to the City of Toronto.
It is absolute insanity. For $100M we could hire 1,000 IRB members and IRCC/CBSA staff to be in a position to adjudicate the entire backlog of asylum claims in a matter of weeks so that these folks aren’t slumming it out in the streets for years while their claim is being reviewed. For another $100M we could build ample immigration detention centres to provide safe housing for the few weeks it takes to process a claim when resource constraints aren’t otherwise bogging down the process. Add in $10M budget for pizza parties when people are successful.
But no. Efficiency is our greatest fear. Let’s allow anyone and their dog to claim asylum status once inside our borders, then delay first determination of their claim for 3 years, then allow an appeal for another 2 years, and then wait through a 2 year federal court judicial review, and of course in the odd case, further higher appeals, while also allowing the person to live in the community and build ties so they can then substantiate a new application of H&C grounds, and if all those fail and they are ordered deported, wait out a multi-year challenge to their removal order. While they burn limitless government and NGO funding, if not their own, let’s generously equip them with free housing, food, healthcare, dentalcare, and anything else we can find.
Throwing money at the problem is not the solution. How about we finally fix our broken asylum system?