Reevely: Ontario's refugee-claimant bill hits $200M, MacLeod testifies on the Hill

Ontario’s bill for refugee claimants is up to $200 million, the province’s social-services minister, Lisa MacLeod, said Tuesday, in a testy Parliament Hill committee hearing that spent much of its time in an argument over whether it’s OK to describe some crossings of the Canadian border as “illegal.”
The Ontario government is continuing to crunch numbers, finding new expenses to attribute to asylum claimants who come into Canada between official “points of ent