Ottawa Considering Plan to Relocate Thousands of Asylum Seekers From Ontario and Quebec

The federal government is preparing a plan to relocate tens of thousands of asylum seekers from Quebec and Ontario to other locations across Canada. Speaking to reporters on Sept. 11, Immigration Minister Marc Miller said he has been having discussions over the summer with his provincial counterparts about what a “fair distribution” of asylum seekers would look like in Canada. “Our teams have been working on models on what that would look like, and we came up with a set of facts and figures about what each province should be taking based on population weight,” Miller said at a national caucus meeting in Nanaimo, B.C. “That means that some provinces should take on more to ease the pressure on provinces like Ontario and Quebec.”...