Jamie Sarkonak：不要让加拿大其他地区承受寻求庇护者的负担 改变规则
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/jamie-sarkonak-dont-burden-the-rest-of-canada-with-asylum-seekers-change-the-rules
自由主义的漏洞为该国带来了太多想要成为难民的人，但阿尔伯塔省、不列颠哥伦比亚省、新不伦瑞克省和新斯科舍省已经人满为患
Jamie Sarkonak 2024 年 9 月 15 日
寻求庇护的难民
2023 年 7 月 13 日，寻求庇护的难民在安大略省多伦多的无家可归者设施外露营。照片由 JACK BOLAND /Postmedia 拍摄
总理贾斯汀·特鲁多 (Justin Trudeau) 在 2017 年要求增加寻求庇护者的数量，他做到了。安大略省和魁北克省获得了大部分。现在，这些省份难以承担这些负担，联邦政府提出了一个新的解决方案：分摊负担。
正在考虑的一项联邦计划将把大约 28,000 名寻求庇护者送往阿尔伯塔省，32,500 人送往不列颠哥伦比亚省，5,000 人送往新斯科舍省，4,600 人送往新不伦瑞克省。该计划的目的是按各省人口比例在全国范围内分摊负担。只是，我们没有空间。
准备接收更多寻求庇护者的省份已经经历了痛苦的租金上涨和医生短缺。安大略省和不列颠哥伦比亚省高昂的生活成本迫使加拿大人涌入阿尔伯塔省；5 月份，阿尔伯塔省的租金同比上涨了 17.5%。在大西洋省份，接待能力也好不到哪里去：6 月份，新斯科舍省的家庭医生候补名单上有 160,000 人，占总人口的 16%；新不伦瑞克省的租金正在飞涨。
自由党政府试图塞进的这些人根本就没有足够的空间：国际学生、临时工、永久居民、难民……尤其是寻求庇护者，他们在等待申请处理时会用掉有限的国家福利——许多加拿大人会发现这些申请是虚假的。可以增加容量，但速度只能这么快。
加拿大目前有 236,000 名寻求庇护者，这是急剧上升的一个因素。仅在 2016 年，就只有 24,000 人提出了难民申请；到 2023 年，这一数字增加了六倍，达到 145,000 人。批准率高达 78%，这在一定程度上是录取标准宽泛的一个因素。可疑的是，大多数尼日利亚申请人的申请都是基于性取向，这很难反驳。来自索马里和叙利亚等不稳定国家的虚假和筛选不充分的申请也令人担忧。
这种增长的部分原因可能可以追溯到 2017 年，总理兴高采烈地向世界高呼“加拿大人欢迎你们”，以回应唐纳德·特朗普总统暂时停止来自高风险国家（主要是非洲和中东）的移民。这在新闻中经常被错误地描述为“穆斯林禁令”，特鲁多因扮演陪衬角色而受到国际赞誉。
更重要的是，特鲁多进行了一些程序上的改变，以增加庇护申请人的流量。2016 年，政府扩大了免签国家名单，并要求来自这些国家的旅行者获得电子旅行授权 (eTA)；2017 年只有 3,500 名 eTA 持有者提出难民申请，但到 2023 年，这一数字上升到略高于 27,000 人——增长了 672%。显然，加拿大向太多本不应该享有这一特权的国家提供了免签旅行。
联邦政府还在 2023 年 2 月大幅放宽了访客签证的资格要求，取消了要求旅行者证明他们有离开计划并且有足够的钱来支付逗留费用的要求。这显然是为了减少联邦移民部门的签证申请量——这是一个愚蠢的举动，因为政府还在一份备忘录中收到警告，此举将导致更多的庇护申请。
最臭名昭著的是特鲁多决定在通往魁北克的非法 Roxham Road 过境点铺开欢迎垫，允许超过 100,000 名来历不明的移民和庇护申请者利用加拿大无人防守的腹地。2017 年，加拿大军方实际上被迫为越境者建造了一个帐篷城，而不是守卫边境，到 2018 年，联邦政府开始向当地人支付移民高速公路带来的不便。
2022 年，特鲁多为他决定开放罗克瑟姆路辩护，无视魁北克人的恳求。直到 2023 年 3 月，他才正式关闭了过境点。
许多大型难民来源国没有理由向我们发送难民。墨西哥是加拿大最大的庇护申请人输出国，该国没有处于战争状态，虽然在许多地方不安全，但在其他许多地方是安全的。印度也是如此，排名仅次于墨西哥。排名第三的尼日利亚确实遭受了地区动荡，但没有中东和乌克兰那样的全面战争。
合法的难民或方便的申请人，他们的金钱和国家能力都很高昂。他们获得医疗保险、法律援助和住房。住宿
去年，政府为这一计划花费了 5.57 亿美元；申请人每天平均可获得 224 美元的住宿和伙食费，相当于每年 82,000 美元（考虑到通常需要两年时间才能处理一项申请，这是一个现实的年度支出）。
加拿大的平均工资仅为 55,630 美元。
移民部长马克·米勒为将寻求庇护者分散到全国各地的提议辩护，称其为“公平”，好像公平的解决方案是有可能实现的。但事实并非如此。如果大门没有敞开并被关在那里，如果加拿大人没有眼睁睁地看着他们的经济停滞十年，也许可以实现。现在，我们正处于这样一个阶段：每个结果都让各省不堪重负，因为根据 2014 年的规定，这些人无法在加拿大提出难民申请。加拿大人放弃了医生的预约名额，缴纳了更多的税，看着住房需求飙升，只是为了看到这个系统被利用。
我们不是世界慈善屋。我们应该自豪地接受一定数量的真正逃离战争的难民，但我们不能向每个来自发展中国家、与妻子幸福结婚并声称自己是双性恋的男子提供慷慨的国家福利。
米勒可以限制对安大略省和魁北克省的损害，驱逐他需要驱逐的人，填补巨大的漏洞，并祈祷选民忘记自由党对难民档案的严重管理不善。阿尔伯塔省、不列颠哥伦比亚省、新斯科舍省和新不伦瑞克省不应为他的政府的错误买单。
Jamie Sarkonak: Don't burden the rest of Canada with asylum seekers. Change the rules
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/jamie-sarkonak-dont-burden-the-rest-of-canada-with-asylum-seekers-change-the-rules
Liberal loopholes have brought too many want-to-be refugees to the country, but Alberta, B.C., New Brunswick and Nova Scotia are at capacity
Asylum-seeking refugees camp out outside a facility for homeless people in Toronto, Ont., July 13, 2023. PHOTO BY JACK BOLAND /Postmedia
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau asked for an asylum-seeker surge in 2017, and boy did he get it. Well, Ontario and Quebec got most of it. And now, as those provinces struggle to support the weight, the federal government has floated a new solution: just spread it around.
A federal plan under consideration would send about 28,000 asylum seekers to Alberta, 32,500 to British Columbia, 5,000 to Nova Scotia and 4,600 to New Brunswick. The idea is to distribute the burden across the country in proportion to provincial populations. Only, we don’t have any room.The provinces poised to have more asylum seekers dumped in their laps have already experienced painful rent hikes and doctor shortages. The obscene cost of living in Ontario and B.C. has pushed Canadians into Alberta; and in May, Alberta rents rose 17.5 per cent year-over-year. In the Atlantic provinces, capacity isn’t much better: Nova Scotia’s family doctor wait list was at 160,000 in June, or 16 per cent of the population; rents in New Brunswick are skyrocketing.
There is simply no room for all the people the Liberal government is trying to cram in: international students, temporary workers, permanent residents, refugees … and especially asylum seekers, who use up limited state benefits as they wait for their claims to be processed — claims that many Canadians would find spurious. More capacity can be built, but only so fast.
Canada currently has 236,000 asylum seekers, a factor of a drastic incline. In just 2016, only 24,000 refugee claims were made; that number sextupled to 145,000 in 2023. The approval rate is an incredibly high 78 per cent, but this is in part a factor of wide admissions criteria. A suspicious majority of Nigerian claimants base their claims on sexual orientation, which is difficult to disprove. False and inadequately screened claims from unstable countries, such as Somalia and Syria, are also a concern.
The feds also dramatically loosened visitor visa eligibility in February 2023, axing the requirement for travellers to prove that they had a plan to leave and enough money to cover their stay. This was an apparent bid to reduce the volume of visa applications inundating the federal immigration department — a foolish one, because the government was also warned in a memo that this move would lead to more asylum claims.
Most notorious was Trudeau’s decision to roll out the welcome mat at the illegal Roxham Road border crossing into Quebec, allowing more than 100,000 migrants and asylum claimants of questionable provenance to capitalize on Canada’s undefended underbelly. In 2017, the Canadian military was actually made to construct a tent city for the border-crossers, instead of, you know, guarding the border, and by 2018, the feds were paying out locals for the inconvenience of the migrant highway.
In 2022, Trudeau defended his decision to leave Roxham Road open, ignoring the pleas of Quebecers. It took until March 2023 for him to officially close the crossing.
Many large source countries have no business sending us refugees. Mexico, which is the top exporter of asylum claimants to Canada, is not at war and, though unsafe in many places, is safe in many others. The same can be said for India, which ranks just below Mexico. Nigeria, in third, does suffer regional unrest, but not the kind of all-out war seen in the Middle East and Ukraine.
Legitimate refugees or claimants of convenience, they all cost dearly in dollars and state capacity. They’re provided health-care coverage, legal assistance and housing. Lodging alone cost the government $557 million last year; claimants received an average of $224 per day for accommodation and food, which equates to $82,000 per year (a realistic annual haul, considering that it usually takes two years to process a claim).
For context, the average salary in Canada is just $55,630.
Immigration Minister Marc Miller defends his proposal to spread asylum seekers around the country by calling it “fair” as if a fair solution is remotely possible. It isn’t. It may have been, if the gates weren’t swung wide open and held there, if Canadians weren’t made to watch their economy stagnate for a decade. Now, we’re at the point where every outcome leaves provinces overwhelmed with people who wouldn’t have been able to stake refugee claims in Canada under 2014 rules. Canadians are giving up doctors’ appointment slots, paying more in taxes, watching demand for housing soar, just to see the system exploited.
We aren’t the world’s charity shack. We should be proud to accept an absorbable number of refugees who are genuinely fleeing war, but we can’t be granting generous state benefits to every happily-married-to-a-woman man from a developing country who claims to be bisexual.
Miller can limit the damage to Ontario and Quebec, deport who he needs to, plug the gaping loopholes and pray that voters forget the Liberals’ grievous mismanagement of the refugees file. It’s not up to Alberta, B.C., Nova Scotia and New Brunswick to pay for his government’s mistakes.
