City to get $7M from feds for temporary refugee housing

Ottawa will be receiving $7 million from the federal government to help ease the financial burden of providing temporary housing for refugee claimants.
The announcement was made Friday by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada.
“This funding for Ottawa and the recent funding provided to Toronto assist our key partners in securing temporary housing for those in need, including asylum claimants,” Bill Blair, Minister of Border Security and Organized Crime Reduction, said in a sta