{"id":19245,"date":"2018-12-13T11:00:50","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T11:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ceo-na.com\/?p=19245"},"modified":"2018-12-13T18:15:42","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T18:15:42","slug":"the-refugee-dilemma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/opinion\/the-refugee-dilemma\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada’s refugee dilemma"},"content":{"rendered":"

Successfully integrating refugees into Canadian society is likely to be a long, difficult, and expensive process.<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s be\u00a0clear: refugee claimants are a very\u00a0different breed\u00a0from ordinary immigrants. Members of the second\u00a0group have not necessarily suffered the violence,\u00a0persecution, or discrimination of the first.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Your average refugee has very likely endured some form of trauma or psychological, physical, and sexual abuse, leading to multiple medical, emotional, and psychological issues that need to be addressed for successful integration to occur.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Canadian\u00a0Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has gained a reputation for being welcoming to refugees, even if some view the politically opportunistic\u00a0selfie-taking as a little too much.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Yet serious challenges persist.\u00a0Understandably, it takes refugees longer to find employment, permanent housing, and to end their reliance on community services such as food banks.<\/span><\/p>\n

Almost 40% of Toronto\u2019s emergency shelter system is now occupied by refugee claimants and the city has been scrambling to house them in everything from regular shelter beds to college dorms and hotels–one of which the city even considered buying, before deciding against the idea.<\/span><\/p>\n

And it\u2019s not just happening in Toronto, where Premier Doug Ford\u2019s government says the Trudeau Liberals have only reimbursed the province for a fraction of the $200 million it has already spent accommodating refugee claimants.<\/span><\/p>\n

The same thing has happened in Quebec\u2014where most irregular\/undocumented asylum seekers cross into Canada\u2014and in Manitoba, another border crossing site.<\/span><\/p>\n

The root problem is\u00a0that the Trudeau government\u2014and, in fairness, previous governments, did much the same–sets refugee policy without meaningful consultation with the\u00a0cities and provinces that end up bearing the bulk of the costs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Critics say the\u00a0response of the Trudeau government to the expression of such legitimate concerns has been to falsely accuse those raising them of fear-mongering about refugee claimants, which is nonsense.\u00a0This is an issue about providing adequate funding and resources to provinces and cities so that they\u00a0can provide proper support to refugees.<\/span><\/p>\n

While the Trudeau government has earmarked funds to this\u00a0end, it hasn\u2019t provided the sufficient amount to do the job right.<\/span><\/p>\n

Trudeau loves boasting about Canada\u2019s diversity and willingness to assist refugees. Given that, it\u2019s time for him to take responsibility for the increased costs to other levels of government his refugee policies have created.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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