Premier David Eby is calling on Premier Justin Trudeau to offer B.C. the same deal as Quebec when it comes to supporting new arrivals.
Visibly frustrated, Eby issued his demand after learning of Ottawa's offer of $750 million dollars over five years to help Quebec deal with its surge of immigrants straining public services and housing in that province. Quebec had been lobbying Ottawa for additional support of up to $1.4 billion to help accommodate some 560,000 temporary immigrants, with a nearly a third of them said to be asylum seekers. At one stage, Quebec even demanded Ottawa grant the province full control over immigration in face of social strains and threats to the French language.
"So to see a single province agreement with Quebec is an underlining of a sense of frustration that I heard around the table," Eby said." won't put this on anyone else, but I'll say for British Columbia, how frustrated we are to see the money being showered down on Quebec and Ontario and us scrabbling around for what's left."
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