Canada Border Services Agency: Refugee Claimants

Refugees Canada Dept: "This funding will be used to offset expenses incurred to intercept and secure the MV Sun Sea and to process the migrants on board in accordance with Canada's domestic and international obligations," the report said, according to CBC. In August, the Sun Sea arrived in B.C. with 492 Tamil migrants on board. As a signatory to the UN Convention on Refugees, Canada must process all refugee claimants who reach Canadian soil and the arrival in Canada of hundreds of Tamil migrants aboard the MV Sun Sea from Thailand cost the federal government $25 million, according to supplementary budget estimates released by Ottawa. The government said the operation cost the Canada Border Services Agency $22 million, the Immigration and Refugee Board $908,000 and the RCMP $2.1 million. As reported in the news.
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