This presentation updated based current data related to costs as well as job placement for refugees.

1. Border Jumpers–
Canada – June 2017
By: Paul Young, CPA, CGA
June 27, 2017

2. Paul Young - Bio
• CPA, CGA
• Financial Solutions
• SME – Risk Management
• SME – Close, Consolidate and Reporting
• SME – Public Policy
• SME – Financial Solutions
• SME – Supply Chain Management
Contact information:
Paul_Young_CGA@Hotmail.com

3. Agenda
• ISIS Threat
• Refugees
• Government Budgets

4. House of Commons
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAKHCQH6DSs

5. Canada on track for all-time high in asylum
claims
• http://www.torontosun.com/2017/05/05/canada-on-track-for-all-time-high-in-
asylum-claims
The new data shows that, between January 1 and March 31, 2017, there were a total of
8,960 asylum claims filed through either the Department of Immigration, Refugees and
Citizenship Canada (IRCC) or the Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA). The
estimate of asylum seekers would be close to 30,000. Nearly double the average which is
about 16,000

6. Border jumper
• http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/887-people-intercepted-trying-to-illegally-enter-canada-in-march-rcmp-1.3375728

7. ISIS Threat

8. Refugees
1970s Vietnam Refugees 2016 Syria Refugees
2016 Asylum Seekers

9. Government Cost / Refugees
• Source – CBC Radio/Government of Canada - http://www.rcinet.ca/en/2016/11/22/bringing-25000-syrian-refugees-to-canada-cost-385m/

10. Federal Government Asylum Seekers
• https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2017/06/15/wait-time-for-canadian-asylum-claims-could-hit-11-years-cost-29-billion-government-analysis.html

11. Border Security
• Government of Canada

12. RCMP / Information
• http://www.metronews.ca/news/winnipeg/2017/04/17/conservative-mp-says-ottawa-needs-to-provide-more-info-on-asylum-seekers.html
“January and February, we were getting updates from the RCMP and (Canada Border Services
Agency),” Falk said Monday. “We’ve been making the same inquiries from the same individuals,
and they tell us that Ottawa has gagged them and that they are unable to provide us that
information.”
Falk said he believes the number of illegal border crossers is rising, and said he’s seen it first-
hand.
“I came through the border two weeks ago on a Saturday night, and there were more than a
dozen individuals at the Emerson port of entry, just waiting to be processed. And this was on a
Saturday night. We know the numbers are increasing, and that’s something that they don’t want
Canadians to know

13. Canada Border
• https://www.pressreader.com/canada/the-hamilton-spectator/20170225/281681139652509
https://ipolitics.ca/2017/02/22/sorry-tony-theres-no-easy-fix-for-the-border-hopping-problem/

14. Issues facing Canada
• Public Safety Costs
• Municipalities pay for fire and police
protection
• Re-deploying RCMP and Border
Guards
• Housing Costs
• Communities house refugees/asylum
seekers

15. Costs
Source - https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/for-refugees-shift-to-provincial-assistance-is-a-financial-challenge/article33202637/ or
http://natoassociation.ca/month-13-and-a-reflection-on-the-economic-impact-of-refugees-in-canada/

16. Removal
• http://www.torontosun.com/2017/03/18/countless-failed-refugee-claimants-still-in-canada

17. Border tensions

18. Video/Crossing the Border
• City TV News - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hNW3_hYl9A
•

19. What needs to be done?
• The asylum seekers should be turn back over to USA through suspending the safe habour
agreement
• Canada on pace to highest # of asylum seekers -
http://www.torontosun.com/2017/05/05/canada-on-track-for-all-time-high-in-asylum-claims
• USA and Canada need to beef up security/monitoring of the border
• Federal funds need to be made available to provincial, municipal and community groups to
support the handling of asylum seekers.