Canadian Centre: Transport Trucks and Cent Increase

canadian centre: Fleeing the U.S. in the back of a truck, refugees find help in Toronto Dr, according to CBC. Paul Caulford said the number matches what he's seeing in person, as desperate newcomers arrive in the city, sometimes hidden in the back of transport trucks, sometimes shielding young children from frostbite. In January, some 810 people seeking refugee status, including men, women and children, used a city shelter, according to statistics from Toronto's Shelter Support and Housing Administration SSHA . That's an 80 per cent increase from January 2016. It's been unprecedented to see this, said Caulford, who works with the Canadian Centre for Refugee and Immigrant Healthcare in east Toronto. There are reports from front-line staff that they are seeing some people of West African origin who are coming to Canada having first intended to seek refugee status in the U.S., she wrote. Many asylum seekers have told Caulford they were planning to head to the U.S. but opted to restart their lives in Canada instead, owing to concern raised by the Trump administration in the U.S. Patricia Anderson, an SSHA manager, confirmed in an email to CBC Toronto that her staff is hearing the same thing. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.