Peel Region could open a long-awaited reception centre to provide front-line services and temporary shelter for more than 1,000 asylum claimants each month as soon as July, if Ottawa and the province agree to provide more than $46 million in additional funding, says Brampton mayor Patrick Brown.
A copy of the proposal for the funding, sent to Marc Miller, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship of Canada (IRCC) for review, was shared with the Star. It details the region’s plan for a centralized resource hub for asylum claimants in the GTA, in a four-storey office building near Toronto Pearson Airport.
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