Despite the increasing number of refugee claimants in Canada — the vast majority of whom are middle-aged men — Premier Danielle Smith says Alberta is currently full.
Asked if she’d take some from Quebec, where most asylum seekers first arrive by plane, Smith told reporters on Tuesday that the timing isn’t right.
“We’re experiencing a similar type of pressure that the federal government has to align the number of people coming into the country with the capacity of our system to be able to support it,” she said, adding, “whether it’s building homes or whether it’s providing healthcare or education.”
The Premier said Alberta houses just 12% of the Canadian population but currently takes in 22% of newcomers to Canada.
Asylum seeker surge
Refugee claimants have spiked in Canada ever since Prime Minister Justin Trudeau infamously flung open the doors for them in 2017, tweeting that everyone is welcome in Canada.
Since then, provinces continue to sound alarm bells over the influx of asylum seekers. Quebec Premier François Legault told Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that his province has reached a “breaking point” in January, as an overwhelming number of individuals continue to show up in Quebec’s airports on round trip flight purchases only to request asylum upon arrival.
The federal Liberals subsequently announced they would provide $750 million to help Quebec manage associated costs, but nothing was offered to other provinces.
BC Premier David Eby said he would be open to taking more refugee claimants off Quebec’s hands, but only if the feds will provide the same financial support.
“If it is a federal program to support new arrivals, it needs to be in place nationally,” he said.
Liberals consider buying up hotels
Immigration Minister Marc Miller announced recently that he might start buying up hotels to house the surge of refugee claimants.
Since Justin Trudeau became Prime Minister, more than half of individuals given deportation orders remain in Canada.
Can she take Canadian refugees from Queerbec?
Neither can Ontario. We do not have the infrastructure for this rapid population increase. It’s too much too fast. Not to mention not a single background check is being done and crime in the GTA is surging right along with all the gangs coming here.
Ontario is finished; it’s been too many, too fast, and a large supermajority from the wrong parts of the world. There’s also not enough truly conservative-minded people left in Ontario; Doug Ford is as fake as it gets (he lied about creating a “split society”!), as is that party, and there’s only the New Blue Party now that is a viable alternative. I suggest leaving Ontario and heading to Alberta, to fortify the stronghold.
Finally, Smith has taken a stand.
The countries ‘accepting’ this flood of illegals are purposely undermining their own safety and democratic freedoms…..the vast majority of these illegals are middle aged male muslims…….they have no grounding in a secular society and in fact have been raised to hate any belief or religion that doesnt suplicate to Islam….look at the mobs protesting in our major cities……these illegals will fit right in.
Greatly appreciate Smith’s position on refusing refugee resettlement but she still spews the Liberal-NDP BS that “Canada is a nation of immigrants”, which literally does not make sense. Canada is a sovereign country founded & created by European settlers & pioneers, who (over time & struggle!) made accords with the vagrant-tribal first nations. Before the 1980s, 96% of Canada was nationally/ethnically European; worldwide mass-immigration, coupled with Multiculturalism ideology & Act, for only 30+ years (not centuries), has deliberately destroyed our nationality and cemented this nation-of-immigrants lie,… which must be undone!
most immagrants pre 40 years ago blended in with Canadian values , Jews irish Italiens Greeks not so much the latest groups they are intent on making Canada the shit hole they ran away from
Greeks & Italians are European and blended in just fine over the past century or more.
Thank you , how about Canada is full
Canada is so full, after too many immigrants, too fast, that we practically need a moratorium on immigration for at least a decade, so that housing prices become reasonable again—and that’s just one key metric. Immigration is unnatural growth, by definition, and should be nowhere near an unsustainable annual-exponential increase, which is 1%, but we’ve been at least double that during Trudeau’s time. Just by the absolute & growth-rate numbers, it’s all been a replacement-level insanity—and it was too high under Harper, too.
We cannot handle anymore refugees. Canada is in crisis. Immigration needs to be shut down until we handle what’s already here and even moreso create consensus and connection with those arriving. We are losing Canada slowly but surely to Trudonts immigration policies (well every policy really).
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