I have it on the best authority that they’re here to save our economy.
The federal government has spent almost $94-million since the last election booking entire hotels for months to accommodate an influx of asylum seekers entering Canada, according to an access-to-information request.
Since September, 2021, the Immigration Department has paid $93,886,222 for “long leases” with hotels, mostly in Quebec, setting them aside for asylum seekers, including those entering the country through the irregular border crossing at Quebec’s Roxham Road.
The department booked 30 hotels between April and December last year – 10 in Montreal alone, according to a redacted response to the access-to-information request.
The Immigration Department said it wants to help take pressure off the provinces, even though the housing of asylum seekers is a provincial responsibility.
By block booking hotel rooms, it can ensure there are enough places to house the “the rising volume of asylum claimants crossing between the ports of entry, who have no housing options available to them,” said Nancy Caron, a spokesperson for Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada.
She added that most come through the Roxham Road and Lacolle border crossings in Quebec from the United States.
The discovery of the body of Haitian migrant Fritznel Richard near Roxham Road this month reignited a debate in Quebec about the irregular border crossing, about an hour’s drive from Montreal.
A briefing document for the Immigration Department’s deputy minister on irregular migration from July last year said at that time the government had 1,721 rooms leased in 24 hotels in 12 locations across Canada.
It said a big rise in airport arrivals, mainly in Montreal, in June last year meant that the department had to transfer asylum claimants from Quebec to hotels in Ottawa and Niagara Falls. They hired 300 hotel rooms in Niagara Falls in July, to cope with an “accommodation crisis in Quebec.”
“While this option is not cost effective, it was the only immediate solution in this circumstance,” the briefing document said.
Quebec Conservative MP Pierre Paul-Hus said he and other MPs were concerned not just about the cost of block booking entire hotels, but the fact that many rooms are unoccupied a lot of the time. He said one such hotel, Hotel St-Bernard in Lacolle, seven minutes from the Roxham Road border crossing, is often empty. The hotel declined to comment.
“What we want is to stop the illegal border crossing. If they don’t do anything to stop it, we will need more hotel rooms and the problems will get worse,” he said, adding that it was also having an impact on tourism.
The organizer of an annual kids’ hockey tournament in Montreal – which is holding its 30th anniversary event in May and June – told The Globe that families cannot find rooms in hotels the tournament has booked for decades because so many have been totally reserved.
Dave Harroch, who runs the Montreal Madness hockey tournament, said families may now have to stay far from where the games will be held, on the West Island of Montreal.
“One of the hotels told me they are only 20 per cent occupied,” he said.
Between last April and December, the Immigration Department booked one Montreal hotel with 175 rooms for $7.5-million and another 160-room hotel in the city for $9.7-million.
In Dorval, near Montreal’s international airport, it booked a 112-room hotel for $5.2-million in the same period. And between September and December, a 117-room hotel was leased for $1.3-million.
The Hampton Inn & Suites by Hilton, near the airport, is among those reserved for asylum seekers. The hotel declined to comment.
The Comfort Inn Aeroport in Dorval is another. Choice Hotels Canada, which has the Comfort Inn brand within its stable, said it was up to its franchisees to decide whether to lease their hotels to the government.
The access-to-information request shows the Immigration Department had a long-term lease on a 39-room hotel between April and December last year in Lacolle, just minutes from the Roxham Road border crossing, at a cost of $1.7-million. It refused to name the hotel.
The information request shows that in Niagara Falls, the government booked a 150-room hotel between October and December last year and an 85-room hotel between April and December, each at a cost of about $1.6-million.
From July to December last year the Immigration Department spent just over $2-million on a 50-room Ottawa hotel. Between April to October it spent just over $1-million on a 30-room hotel in the capital.
The government has also spent millions reserving entire hotels for asylum seekers who move on to other parts of Canada, including in Winnipeg, Lethbridge, Alta. and Surrey, B.C.
Thanks to “Educated” FILTHY LIBERALS, and their neat math skills, another 500,000 “immigrants” this year, 500,000 next year, 500,000 yr after that, = A True Fagtopian Paradise of FILTHY LIBERAL Tyranny.
“Immigrants” means 1+ Dozens of Family members. = Chain Migration.
One would almost think the hotels are being turned into barracks, for some sort of poor man’s army. Bring in a bunch of young males, tell them they are victims, and then kick them out and tell them to fend for themselves…..criminal activity included.
Keeping in mind that 500,000 is only the legal immigrants.
That’s a lot of doctors that will be required to treat them with “free” Healthcare.
On a completely different topic, why is healthcare in canuckistan stretched so thin? So glad I pay so much in taxes.
And yet we have a homeless problem in every minor town and city in canaduh, with canadian citizens sleeping in the streets.
Somebody needs to spray paint NO CANADIANS ALLOWED on the outside of those hotels, you know for posterity and talking points for the next several generations.
Money can always be found for the wasters and grifters in turdeau’s BROKEN canaduh
One of Trudeau’s favourite “refugee hotels” happens to be the Radisson…….among a few others………
In August 2018, Radisson Hotel Group was sold to Aplite Holdings AB, a consortium led by a Chinese state-owned hospitality company, Jin Jiang International.[32][6] According to the press release, Radisson Hotel Group had more than 1,400 hotels in operation and under development at that time.[6] As of December 2017, the listed subsidiary Rezidor Hotel Group AB had been operating 369 hotels.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radisson_Hotel_Group
Paul – Thanks for helping me rethink my hotel bookings. I’ll ensure my assistant knows about this. I hope other SDA readers see your link.
Governors Abbott and Desantis should start shipping illegal immigrants to the Roxham Road and Lacolle border crossings in Quebec from the United States. It will be hypocritical when Trudeau complains, and you know the little worm will complain.
They’ll stop coming when Canada gets as bad as the places they’re coming from, so at this rate not too far in the future.
Ahhh…Canadians. Complaining about the taxpayer cost of being invaded by foreigners, like they’d be OK with it, as long as they contributed to the economy.
The idiocy is off the scale.
Canadians are complaining about paying for hotel rooms for invading foreigners because it pours acid on the wound. Not only are we being over run by invading foreigners, but we’re being forced via our tax $$$ to pay for their accommodations.
Also who is paying to feed these leaches three meals a day and look after their health care and medicinal needs. Most of these “new Canadians” have never seen a doctor in their life, are we also picking up the tab for any medical procedures and prescriptions they require. Are these costs being paid from the tax dollars that Canadians have been required to pay to ensure that we and our families would receive the benefits of socialized health care. Seems like the promises and assurances made by Commie Douglas and his cohorts all those years ago were intended to Communize Canada and the “Clown Council” AKA Turdeaus cabinet are onboard along with the WEF!
“Most of these “new Canadians” have never seen a doctor in their life, are we also picking up the tab for any medical procedures and prescriptions they require. Are these costs being paid from the tax dollars that Canadians have been required to pay to ensure that we and our families would receive the benefits of socialized health care.”
Not only are we funding their healthcare (and everything else) they are jumping the cue for transplants, etc.
Nice, faster, harder , crash the system to start over, The Great Reset.
Bloody Clown World.
How much did the Liberals spend on block booking hotels in Ottawa a year ago? Was it to buy local support for the Liberals? Was it to keep Freedom sympathizers out of town? Was it to house the brownshirt thugs that revelled in stomping on protestors?
This post is an attempt at voter suppression against all these new Liberal voters.
Think about all the new doctors and entrepreneurs we are getting out of this!
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/29c784ce61fdb197ed93d14490c0eb3e4ad6d56f1031e6196d642b43091acb81.jpg
We need people who know how to get around red tape. If they can figure out how to enter Canada and get to the front of the benefits line they’ve shown they have what it takes. Those doctors will be able to figure out billing without seeing patients. Those entrepreneurs will be able to buy Uber driver accounts and get working without a license. And they’ll all know how to vote. /sarc
If my hotel was a little older and could use some renovations, I’d rent it out for a few months to the government, and then “negotiate” with them for the total cost of the renovations since the tenants enriched the hotel with things like live goat slaughter in the rooms (even if it was fake news)
I’ve been to a hotel where they keep refugees. Have you stayed in a Hotel room with your family for a couple of weeks? Multiply that by a few months, insert 5 kids & boredom, substract dicipline and add weird cooking. They wreck the place. Then the owner has money for renovations I guess.
Something that stuck out to me in this article is the absolute disregard for hard earned tax dollars. They’re putting these immigrants in the Hilton. They are putting these immigrants up in vacation locations (Niagra Falls, they took over two large hotels). Let’s say that giving immigrants a foothold upon arrival is the right thing to do (it’s not, but let’s just capitulate on that issue). Then there should be some serious cost effective shopping done to determine the least expensive hotels and apply the entitlement cost to those vendors.
After all, hotels operate at the whim of the government based on their established business operation regulations. They should be housed in the cheapest, most cost effective locations if you are going to house them at all. All such vendors qualify.
It’s OPM, the government doesn’t care
Precisely.
The same thing is happening in the UK 50000 a year crossing the English Channel alone last year not including the 500000 chain families arriving by aircraft every year,it is an army of occupation in the case of the Channel crossings all young men of fighting age they are aided and abetted by the UK government the Royal Navy and the RNLI i have lost respect for all of our institutions they can rot and go to hell as far as i am concerned..
This is just sickening how the Liberals are destroying the best country in the world. They rented the hotel and condo building at Yonge and Front here in Toronto. The condo owners were inundated with the homeless and gimme grants and they finally convinced John Tory our mayor to get them out! There is almost open warfare on our streets and the TTC with lots of those demographics we know about. How long before we start to carry concealed weapons?
They are coming to get the free stuff that you get from the Liberals then you vote for them forever.
“The Hampton Inn & Suites by Hilton, near the airport, is among those reserved for asylum seekers.”
Not too shabby I would say. We stayed at a Hampton Inn by Hilton near Pearson Airport a year ago and it was a very nice hotel. I would like to see the condition after year or two of refugees living there.
Where ARE those doctors we were promised?
Dr. ‘William Makis’ Says! “There Are 93 Dead Doctors in ‘Canada’ Since ‘Covid’ Vaccine Mandates”
It appears they will have to be training them up from scratch, because there are none among Roxham Road Renegades.
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st St Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”
And no nurses.
But what are their voting habits?
How does an irregular border crossing work?One can enter Canada without papers?
They walk across and the RCMP (Royal Canadian Migrant Porters) help them with their luggage… 🙂
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st St Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”
Here’s a link to an article from the state news agency:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/the-national-roxham-road-immigration-border-1.5169249
I noticed that the shooting was 5th on the side of the article. Surprised it was not first.
Thank you.The article was interesting.