- Canada is experiencing an influx of refugees and asylum seekers crossing the border illegally which is straining government budgets and social services. The Liberal government refuses to designate all border crossings as official ports of entry. This is leading to tensions as the costs mount for provinces and municipalities. Strengthening border security and supporting sub-national governments are seen as priorities.

1. Immigration -
Refugees– May 2018
By: Paul Young, CPA, CGA April 24, 2018

2. Paul Young - Bio
• CPA, CGA
• Financial Solutions
• SME – Risk Management
• SME – Close, Consolidate and Reporting
• SME – Public Policy
• SME – Financial Solutions
• SME – Supply Chain Management
Contact information:
Paul_Young_CGA@Hotmail.com

3. Summary
• Canada is ethnic diverse culture, but illegal border crossing is starting to impact the
funding of social services
• The Liberals have refused to designate all border crossing illegals
• Opposition questions the border crossing the government goes off on tangent
saying “Opposition voted down the moneys for borders and refugees)
• All the opposition as well as majority Canadians want is for the borders to be secure
and that people go through the proper process to immigrate to Canada
• Canada is heading to a very dangerous slope when it comes to supporting the influx
of refugees.

4. Agenda
• ISIS Threat
• Refugees
• Government Budgets

5. Fiscal Monitor – January 2018
Source - https://www.fin.gc.ca/fiscmon-revfin/2018-01-eng.asp
• Government is spending over $315M more in global affairs. Global Affairs covers immigration
• This does not include moneys the municipalities and provinces have to spend on healthcare,
education and social assistance payments.

6. Refugee Crisis
Source - http://globalnews.ca/news/3673174/refugee-quebec-army-poll/

7. House of Commons
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAKHCQH6DSs

8. Canada on track for all-time high in asylum
claims
• http://www.torontosun.com/2017/05/05/canada-on-track-for-all-time-high-in-
asylum-claims
The new data shows that, between January 1 and March 31, 2017, there were a total of
8,960 asylum claims filed through either the Department of Immigration, Refugees and
Citizenship Canada (IRCC) or the Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA). The
estimate of asylum seekers would be close to 30,000. Nearly double the average which is
about 16,000

9. Border jumper
• Source - https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/refugees/asylum-claims.html

10. ISIS Threat

11. Refugees
1970s Vietnam Refugees 2016 Syria Refugees
2016 Asylum Seekers

12. Government Cost / Refugees
• Source – CBC Radio/Government of Canada - http://www.rcinet.ca/en/2016/11/22/bringing-25000-syrian-refugees-to-canada-cost-385m/

13. Federal Government Asylum Seekers
• https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2017/06/15/wait-time-for-canadian-asylum-claims-could-hit-11-years-cost-29-billion-government-analysis.html

14. Border Security
• Government of Canada

15. RCMP / Information
• http://www.metronews.ca/news/winnipeg/2017/04/17/conservative-mp-says-ottawa-needs-to-provide-more-info-on-asylum-seekers.html
“January and February, we were getting updates from the RCMP and (Canada Border Services
Agency),” Falk said Monday. “We’ve been making the same inquiries from the same individuals,
and they tell us that Ottawa has gagged them and that they are unable to provide us that
information.”
Falk said he believes the number of illegal border crossers is rising, and said he’s seen it first-
hand.
“I came through the border two weeks ago on a Saturday night, and there were more than a
dozen individuals at the Emerson port of entry, just waiting to be processed. And this was on a
Saturday night. We know the numbers are increasing, and that’s something that they don’t want
Canadians to know

16. Canada Border
• https://www.pressreader.com/canada/the-hamilton-spectator/20170225/281681139652509
https://ipolitics.ca/2017/02/22/sorry-tony-theres-no-easy-fix-for-the-border-hopping-problem/

17. Issues facing Canada
• Public Safety Costs
• Municipalities pay for fire and police
protection
• Re-deploying RCMP and Border
Guards
• Housing Costs
• Communities house refugees/asylum
seekers

18. Costs
Source - https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/for-refugees-shift-to-provincial-assistance-is-a-financial-challenge/article33202637/ or
http://natoassociation.ca/month-13-and-a-reflection-on-the-economic-impact-of-refugees-in-canada/

19. Removal
• http://www.torontosun.com/2017/03/18/countless-failed-refugee-claimants-still-in-canada

20. Border tensions

21. Video/Crossing the Border
• City TV News - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hNW3_hYl9A
•

22. Trudeau and Rehabilitation

23. Quebec Crossing
Source - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4776750/Army-building-tents-U-S-border-refugees-flood-in.html

24. Liberal Task Force
• Source - http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/trudeau-border-crossers-task-force-to-review-next-steps-for-asylum-seekers-
1.3556742?autoPlay=true
CTV News – August 22, 2017

25. 2017 Border Crossing
Source - http://nationalpost.com/news/politics/more-than-32000-asylum-seekers-have-arrived-in-canada-so-far-in-2017
Crossing
32,000
Cost (Housing,
Food, etc.)
$15K to 20K per
year
Total Cost
$480M to
700M

26. Michelle Rempel
Source - https://openparliament.ca/debates/2017/9/26/michelle-rempel-2/

27. Citizen Guide – Gender Mutilation
Non answer from the
Immigration Minister

28. Quebec / Refugee Crisis
• Canada is spending over
$300M more on refugees
and the border
• Liberals refuse to
designated all border
crossing as point of entry
• Trudeau has no moneys for vets,
but money for illegal border
crossing Refugees
• Liberals have not help veterans -
https://twitter.com/andrewscheer
/status/983495022841544704
Quebec is pushing back as
they told govt that they
cannot afford the refugees -
https://ca.reuters.com/articl
e/topNews/idCAKBN1HR
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• Provinces are struggling
supporting their existing
requirements

29. What needs to be done?
• The asylum seekers should be turn back over to USA through suspending the safe harbor
agreement
• Canada on pace to highest # of asylum seekers -
http://www.torontosun.com/2017/05/05/canada-on-track-for-all-time-high-in-asylum-claims
• USA and Canada need to beef up security/monitoring of the border
• Federal funds need to be made available to provincial, municipal and community groups to
support the handling of asylum seekers.