$1.1-billion over three years earmarked for municipalities and provinces to meet the rising cost of housing asylum seekers
High-risk immigrants, including those who may pose a threat to public safety, could be locked up in federal prisons under legislative changes being brought forward through the budget bill.detention centres to house those immigrants considered high-risk or a flight risk.
At the end of last year, approximately 1,660 immigrants were detained in Canada, with 354 of them in provincial jails. Ottawa earlier this year announced an additional $360-million through the program for provinces and municipalities, with $100-million of the funds earmarked for Quebec. Ottawa will provide $141-million to pay for temporary lodging for asylum claimants, who cannot be accommodated because provincial places are full. The money could pay for hotel rooms for claimants who faceFinance Minister Chrystia Freeland's latest budget projects spending of $535 billion this year, with a deficit of $39.8 billion. She says the spending plan is aimed at creating generational fairness, which will be funded, in part, by changes to capital gains taxes, on April 16.
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