Ottawa allocates $1.9B for asylum housing — can’t say how many are housed

The IRCC doesn’t track asylum claimants as they move from hotels into municipally controlled housing.

Source: X (Liberal Party)

Ottawa has allocated roughly $1.9 billion to help house asylum claimants since 2017, but cannot say how many are currently housed through the program.

“To date, the Government of Canada has allocated about $1.9 billion to provinces and municipalities under the Interim Housing Assistance Program since 2017,” Immigration, Refugees …