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'We're close to the limit': Big O becomes a shelter as refugees flow from U.S. (Quebec)
Montreal Gazette ^ | August 2, 2017

Posted on 08/02/2017 2:36:38 PM PDT by SMGFan

An “increasing wave” of Haitian refugee claimants forced officials to open a temporary shelter in the Olympic Stadium Wednesday while scrambling to keep up with a demand they fear isn’t showing any signs of slowing down. The first busload of asylum seekers arrived at the stadium early Wednesday morning. About 150 beds had been set-up over the weekend. Francine Dupuis, who oversees PRAIDA, a government-funded program to help seekers get on their feet in Quebec, said the number of refugee claimants in recent months is unprecedented.

(Excerpt) Read more at montrealgazette.com ...


TOPICS: Canada; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: canada
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There is plenty of room in the Yukon & North West Territories. But you need to be self-sufficient?
1 posted on 08/02/2017 2:36:38 PM PDT by SMGFan
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To: SMGFan

Oh, fantastic.

Thanks, PM Trudeau. /s


2 posted on 08/02/2017 2:38:28 PM PDT by proud American in Canada
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Well Canada you opened the floodgates so here you go. Maybe Sweden can give you some tips since they obviously they know what to do with new citizens.


3 posted on 08/02/2017 2:41:59 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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Katrina refugees were kept in the Astrodome.
What’s the deal with housing refugees in
dank, obsolete stadiums?


4 posted on 08/02/2017 2:43:40 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: proud American in Canada
Sorry guys.

When do you get to vote him out?

5 posted on 08/02/2017 2:44:17 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Not a Romantic, not a hero worshiper and stop trying to tug my heartstrings. It tickles! (pink bow))
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To: SMGFan

Is Dawson City still alive?


6 posted on 08/02/2017 2:46:18 PM PDT by Thibodeaux (Democrat calls for kumbaya must be met with their blood on the ground)
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To: SMGFan

Ha Ha!


7 posted on 08/02/2017 2:46:27 PM PDT by dfwgator
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Churchill, Manitoba. Where polar bears roam the streets.


8 posted on 08/02/2017 2:47:02 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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“temporary protected status” they were granted...7 years ago.

Hmmm. key word...TEMPORARY.


9 posted on 08/02/2017 2:51:27 PM PDT by pioneerstakethearrows
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‘We’re close to the limit’

Limit? Limits are racist and xenophobic.


10 posted on 08/02/2017 2:53:10 PM PDT by rightwingcrazy (rightwingcrazy)
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When does Trump start bussing Mexican illegals to the Canadian border? Once they get on the Canadian benefits train they’ll stay and get used to our winters. “Free” housing, healthcare, welfare cheques, education and very lucrative child benefits. A low income family with 4 kids can make $30,000 per year just in child benefits. Beats working on a spinach farm in California.


11 posted on 08/02/2017 2:59:40 PM PDT by littleharbour
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On a per capita basis, Canada should be willing to accept 10% of Americans illegals. We are so sanctimonious because we don’t have a border with a third world country. Make Trudeau eat his words by welcoming 2 million illegals. It would collapse our health care system overnight.


12 posted on 08/02/2017 3:02:09 PM PDT by littleharbour
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Why in the hell don’t these people try fixing their countries instead of running away from them?


13 posted on 08/02/2017 3:02:13 PM PDT by jmacusa (Dad may be in charge but mom knows whats going on.)
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Oh Canada; can we work something out where you take in about 30-40 million leftists and 20 million illegals in America today? We will pay you $5 a head; promise.


14 posted on 08/02/2017 3:05:55 PM PDT by Boomer (I'm offended by political correctness.)
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Canadians will be bred out of existence in the near future.


15 posted on 08/02/2017 3:09:21 PM PDT by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small fee)
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We’re going to need a big, beautiful wall along our northern border soon.


16 posted on 08/02/2017 3:10:17 PM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC)z)
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How many times have you voted to fix the problem?

Me? About 20.

Nothing changed.


17 posted on 08/02/2017 3:20:39 PM PDT by null and void (ObamaCare, giving the government the power of life and death over Americans since March 23, 2010...)
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To: proud American in Canada

Yes, yes YES!!!

The winning continues.


18 posted on 08/02/2017 3:21:47 PM PDT by Walrus (Those who work should eat better than those who don't)
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Why in the hell don’t these people try fixing their countries instead of running away from them?

I look at it from another point of view but along the same lines. I watch some of those young Mexicans working their tails off and turning out quality work, and I wonder why they can't turn their own country around.

I have to believe our open boarders and outsourcing has taken away any incentive to fix their own country, and that's sad. If they put that energy into fixing their own country, they'd be an economic powerhouse within a few generations.

What's stopping them.

19 posted on 08/02/2017 3:23:40 PM PDT by TwelveOfTwenty (Prayers for our country and President Trump)
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There is a very strong caste system in Mexico and the rest of Latin America. It’s been that way since the Spanish Conquest (Even before I read somewhere there was even a very strong caste/class system in Aztec & Inca societies,)


20 posted on 08/02/2017 3:33:04 PM PDT by Reily
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