Canadians pay out $115 MILLION to house illegal immigrants in Niagara Falls hotels

Katie Daviscourt

Canadian taxpayers have shelled out more than $115 million for illegal immigrants to be housed in hotels throughout Niagara Falls within the past year.

A report from Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada shows that the annual cost to provide living accommodations to so-called “asylum seekers” amounts to approximately $115 million, per True North.
Data from the report disclosed that between Feb. 2023 and Feb. 2024, the tourist city accommodated nearly 5,000 asylum seekers at the cost of $208 per day for each individual. All of them were provided taxpayer-funded accommodations for at least 113 days.

The majority of these refugee claimants are from Venezuela, Kenya, Nigeria, Colombia, and Turkey, according to the report.

The numbers were disclosed after Conservative MP Tony Baldinelli raised a query about the issue in the House of Commons last month.

The expenses that were reported included costs for food, accommodation, services, and security measures.

However, comprehensive monitoring of such expenditures was lacking in early 2023, according to the immigration department, which classified these figures as a conservative approximation of the full costs.