Beyond the immediate medical, living and housing costs for economic migrants who are flowing into Canada illegally over the Quebec border, Canadian taxpayers are also doling out significant amounts of cash for an unexpected expense:
Quebecers living by the Canada-United States border where thousands of migrants have crossed irregularly into the country since 2017 will be eligible for payments of up to $25,000, the federal government….Life along the previously sleepy Roxham Road — the main entry point for migrants entering the country on foot — has been disturbed, and residents deserve to be compensated, Border Security Minister Bill Blair said.
Trudeau has a history of extravagance. He has tried to buy the media with a 600-million-dollar bailout package that has been described by many as “headline buying” or “media management.” Now he’s trying to pacify residents or border areas whose lives have been disrupted by the migrant crossings that should have been stopped immediately after they began.
The Toronto Sun reported during the summer months, when migrants were pouring in by the hundreds each day:
Roxham Road, a narrow paved road lined by horse farms and marshes, has served as a path recently for Palestinians, Colombians, Ghanaians, Nigerians, Haitians, Zimbabweans and Pakistanis, among others.
Who is going to pay for the traumatized guests of the Radisson Toronto East hotel, where about 400 refugees from Africa occupied all but two floors of the hotel, turning the Radisson into a squalid migrant camp? We also hope that no one has forgotten Trudeau’s welcome of anyone and everyone, including Islamic State jihadis, into the country, with Canadians given no say in the matter. Trudeau thinks that Islamic State jihadis can be a “powerful voice” for deradicalization. He also thinks that questions about his mismanagement of Canada’s borders are “Islamophobic.”
Canadians can expect to dole out much more money, particularly in the upcoming election year, and given the unpopular UN Migration Pact. The simplest questions about the Pact, which is claimed to be non-binding, must be asked: why is such a Pact even needed? Has Canada now fully subscribed to the globalist vision of open borders? Who is footing the bill for the migrant influx and the integration and assimilation of the migrants? Canada is already at a four-decade low in its employment rate, and it’s are likely only to get worse.
“Residents near U.S. border in Quebec to be paid up to $25,000 for asylum seeker disruption: Bill Blair,” by Mylene Crete, Canadian Press, December 12, 2018:
OTTAWA — Quebecers living by the Canada-United States border where thousands of migrants have crossed irregularly into the country since 2017 will be eligible for payments of up to $25,000, the federal government announced Wednesday.
Life along the previously sleepy Roxham Road — the main entry point for migrants entering the country on foot — has been disturbed, and residents deserve to be compensated, Border Security Minister Bill Blair said.
“I’ve been there. I’ve spoken to the residents. I’ve seen the level of activity of the RCMP, the (Canada Border Services Agency) and other officials that has impacted what is otherwise a quiet, rural road,” Blair told reporters.
Roughly 96 per cent of all migrants who have crossed illegally into Canada since 2017 have done so at Roxham Road.
The federal Immigration Department says 16,000 people crossed the Canada-U.S. border illegally into Quebec through the end of October this year, and about 19,000 did last year.
Bureaucrats divided the Roxham Road area into three zones based on proximity to the border. People living in the closest zone are eligible to receive up to $25,000, those in the next closest $10,000, and those in the third zone $2,500….
Renate says
How generous of him, but I did hear that each migrant gets $50,000.00 from him.
Victoria says
It’s interesting all the complaints against Canada’s rush to an immigration crisis but since there are no leaders in the country that would lead a full throttle push back against the Boy King and his erratic march to the destruction of the once promising country it will continue. One wonders if Trudoe’s Daddy, Paul put a curse on Canada before he died.He hated anything that was not French and almost destroyed the economy of the province of Quebec. Notice how the ;Quebecers get paid and the Englishers don’t.
Renate says
That was Pierre, not Paul, but, yes, he put a curse on Canada as soon as he became Prime Minister…a socialist curse.
Victoria says
Trudeau will always take care of his own first, just like his Daddy, Paul did. His father almost destroyed Canada and the Province of Quebec during his reign. His son is a chip of the old block only dumber.
andra says
Canada, welcome to the new islamic Western world.
In 2015 I had the feeling that the British development of the last decades took place in Germany in high speed. But Canada is even faster than Germany. Uncredible.
mortimer says
Bribery. The money will go to loyal party members who will recycle the money into the next election campaigns.
Any local people who are REALLY MAD about it will be called “RACIST” and they will not get a penny of it.
Indiana Tom says
Trudeau thinks that Islamic State jihadis can be a “powerful voice” for deradicalization.
Seems like Double Speak.
Only the radicals can de-radicalize.
revereridesagain says
I keep pointing out to “open border” virtue signalers that America is no longer a frontier country with wide swaths of land to be settled. Every inch of it is either privately owned or maintained via government taxes which means each and every illegal alien is intruding on private property. Given their northernmost climate, pretty much the same applies to Canada. What the Canadian government “owes” its citizens who live by the border and whose lives are being invaded and disrupted is PROTECTION in the form of closing the border and now allowing thieves and squatters to invade their property.
And a side note, where did those “poor” migrants get all that expensive luggage?
WPM says
Soros get the wholesale rate for purchasing suitcases, clothing ,cellphones, bus tickets for the “poor migrants “.They are leaving the ” oppressive Trump America” where illegal aliens who commit felonies can be deported to Canada were illegal aliens not matter their criminal record are welcomed. Like so many refugees in Europe that travel from southern Europe to the welfare haven of Northern Europe ,the refugees in America are moving into Canada for more “free stuff” . I hope the Canadians vote this OWG puppet out in 2019 .
SB says
Trudeau, May, Merkel, Macron, and the like, must not know history. They know they’ll puke the lives up of good, loyal, tax paying citizens, and reward those who hate and want to kill those good citizens. they see themselves as living the privileged lifestyles that they so deserve; until something once again catastrophic happens, and their military and law enforcement will turn a blind eye, and the people they screwed will yank them out of their ivory towers, and string them up like Benito Mussolini.
Lodesman says
My father, a patriotic Englishman who worked all his life in heavy industry gave me a good piece of advice: ‘England will give anybody a chance – except an Englishman.’ I took his advice and left the country and got my chance. Only in the most desperate circumstances do the English classes somewhat come together. It is very apparent that the classes are not coming together despite a massive Islamic child rape epidemic, no go areas and murder in the streets. Nigel Farage’s snotty attitude toward TR says it all. Farage had abandoned UKIP and should have remained silent.
somehistory says
All of the “migrants” are dressed in nice clothes and pulling those nice bags. How much will they get for crossing illegally?
Money does not solve every problem. It doesn’t keep a child or woman safe from rape, anyone safe from robbery, or anyone safe from being murdered.
lisalles says
If i was getting the $25K, i would team up with other locals….pool the money and buy yellow material. Start sewing yellow vests…..there will be a huge demand. Put all the kids in the community to work sewing.
John Bosley says
I would be getting concrete and fencing material along with razor wire.
I would plug that ravine crossing Pronto.
Garfield says
Has it become a route for tuberculosis, chagas, hepatitus? Anyone checking for any of the *diverse* germs the migrants might have?
Giacomo Latta says
While you were ”there”, Blair, did you do a quick of survey of whether locals wanted $25K plus an endless river of future illegal migrants or rather no money plus peace, quiet and security?