It started last summer with 87, grew to 300, and most recently shot up to around 2,000 hotel rooms that were being utilized in Niagara Falls, Ont., to accommodate asylum seekers sent there from Quebec.
And with nearly 3,000 migrants in total having been transferred since July, community services of the city are feeling the pressure on their already stretched resources to meet the needs of this sudden influx of people.
“We’re trying to be good Canadians and do what we always do, which is always lend a hand. But there’s limits to everything that we can physically do,” said Niagara Falls Mayor Jim Diodati.
