OTTAWA — Canada’s backlog of asylum claims will likely reach 100,000 by the end of 2021 before stabilizing, up from 75,000 today, the chairperson of the Immigration and Refugee Board told a parliamentary committee on Tuesday.Because, I guess... reducing it would be bad?
The board’s goal now is to manage the growth of the backlog rather than to reduce it, Richard Wex told the committee.
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RELATED: Hang on, let's do the math...
"Costs per migrant are also expected to go up as the years go on, hitting an average of $16,666 per migrant for those that arrive in the year 2019."That's 1.7 billion dollars.
I can't even get a family doctor.