Quebec premier says Ottawa should forcibly relocate half of asylum seekers

Premier François Legault says nan national authorities should unit asylum seekers arriving in Quebec to move to different provinces, including group who person already settled successful nan province.

Legault said during a travel to Paris connected Wednesday that he wants half of nan asylum seekers presently in Quebec to beryllium transferred elsewhere successful nan country.

The premier says it doesn’t make consciousness that Quebec receives astir 45 per cent of would-be refugees successful Canada, contempt accounting for only 22 per cent of nan population.

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The national authorities says it wants a fairer distribution of asylum seekers crossed nan country, but nan agency of Immigration Minister Marc Miller says Ottawa won’t unit provinces to return successful much people.

Ottawa is offering financial incentives to provinces that want to thief and is threatening to trim nan number of economical immigrants for provinces that resist.

Legault said connected Tuesday that his authorities has asked Ottawa to create waiting zones for asylum seekers entering nan country, arsenic is nan believe successful France.