Asylum Seekers: Tent Camp and Scott Bardsley

asylum seekers: Scott Bardsley says half of the trailers should be operational by mid-November, with the second group coming into service a month later, according to CTV. The trailers will replace a temporary tent camp that was set up this summer in response to the flood of asylum seekers walking across the border from the United States. A spokesman for Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale says a contract has been awarded to a private company to provide heated accommodation for up to 200 people near the Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle border station. The federal government says there have been about 50 people a day crossing the border irregularly at Lacolle in recent weeks, down from 200-250 a day at the height of summer. The new trailers will include areas for sleeping, cooking and related services, according to an email from Bardsley. RCMP intercepted 1,720 people in Quebec in September, compared to 5,530 in July. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.