Ottawa Attempts: Official Count and Number

ottawa attempts: Although the official count won't come out until next week, Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale's office confirmed on Friday the August number for Quebec alone is estimated at 6,000, twice the 2,996 people intercepted by the RCMP in July, according to Toronto Star. Most are Haitians. Charles Krupa / AP file photo By Nicholas Keung Immigration reporter Fri., Sept. 15, 2017 The number of asylum-seekers crossing into Quebec from the U.S. doubled in August, even as Ottawa attempts to play down the crisis. The new number pushes the total refugee claimants toward the 40,000 mark with four months left in 2017. Read more Task force on Canada-U.S. border crossings to meet, review next steps for asylum seekers Article Continued Below Soldiers help with the crush of asylum-seekers at Quebec border Quebec to no longer give welfare cheques to asylum-seekers in convention centre Scott Bardsley, Goodale's spokesperson, said the number of irregular border-crossers arriving in Lacolle was around 200 to 250 a day in late July and early August, reaching 12,000 in total. react-empty 166 While the number of people coming to seek asylum has moderated, we cannot be complacent. That's a big increase; by comparison, Canada received 23,920 asylum-seekers in all of last year. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.