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applegrove

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Thu Jul 5, 2018, 08:32 PM Jul 2018

(Doug Ford is Trump's man) Ford government is ending co-operation with Ottawa on resettlement of [View all]

asylum-seekers

By ROBERT BENZIE at the Toronto Star

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.thestar.com/amp/news/queenspark/2018/07/05/ford-government-is-ending-cooperation-with-ottawa-on-resettlement-of-asylum-seekers.html

"SNIP........

Blaming Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for creating “a mess,” Premier Doug Ford’s new Progressive Conservative government has withdrawn Ontario’s co-operation with Ottawa over asylum-seekers.

But Trudeau emerged from a 40-minute meeting with Ford at Queen’s Park suggesting the rookie premier does not understand the complexities behind the migrant crisis currently straining Toronto shelter resources.

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“It didn’t seem to me that the premier was quite as aware of our international obligations to the UN Convention on Refugees as he might have been,” the prime minister told reporters Thursday, after the leaders’ first official meeting.

“So I spent a little time explaining how the asylum-seeking system works and how our system is supposed to operate,” said Trudeau.


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These are refugees.

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