“We have a clear plan for managing asylum seeker pressures and continue to act to support our partners,” Ahmed Hussen, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, said at the time. “Our largest cities have shown tremendous leadership in their response to the recent influx of asylum seekers. Toronto and Montreal, as major population centres, face the greatest challenges when it comes to housing asylum claimants, and we will continue to work with them to come up with long-term, workable solutions to those challenges.”
