New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs clashes with Ottawa over asylum seeker relocation

Sarah Plowman has more on N.B. Premier Blaine Higgs' objections to a federal plan to send 4,600 asylum seekers to the province.

New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs speaks to reporters as Canada's premiers hold a press conference to close the Council of the Federation meetings in Halifax on Wednesday, July 17, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darren Calabrese

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[Nick-jk]

What a mess this government has created. We need elections as of yesterday.

[patriciamoore]

We have no doctors, no housing, no hospitals. Stop the madness!

[robertcalder]

send them home. We can't afford to take care of our own as it is.

[WesWoychyshyn]

Canadians want a federal election now!👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Trudeau has to go!🤡🤡🤡🤡

[gwenshantz]

Send some to Marc Millers back yard see how he likes it.

[michaelbooth]

all of our provinces are open to immigration and compassion but our immigration system must make sense and it has not the past 6 years.

[j.m.]

Close the door on the whole country. We are full.

[evanhammond]

We don't want them in Alberta either Trudeau must go

[poomole]

Higgs is a boss, we dont want them here, zero, none

[ShirleySloan-iv]

So where can WE go to seek asylum from the lunacy?

[alanj]

Just stop providing services for non-citizens. Period. Use the notwithstanding clause if needed. They'll leave on their own, I promise.

[barbarastoll]

We have no room in BC either. No doctors, no rentals for Canadians.

[Devinthedrummaster]

Our immigration minister probably drunk: "lets just put 100k minorities in ontario 100k quebec 21k bc 5k new Brunswick."But why are we bringing them in at all in a housing crisis? What an airhead!

[eastcoastpewpew]

Canada needs an election NOW! Nova Scotia is beyond max capacity with tents all over the HRM, does this mean more tents? Why do I say this? Well it's because we can't even house the current residents, we have no doctors either. Ontario and Quebec are large provinces hence the large number of migrants/ refugees.

[skipperd]

Suggest to have the assylum seekers move into the pm and minister houses.

[WinstonSmithRoom]

these numbers are jenn o cide of Canadians, our young deserve these resources.

[Gamer-fyqm]

Send them to northern territories, they could use some extra hands.

[Jasonfromthegreatwhitenorth]

I live in New Brunswick in a tent homeless since Covid born and raised in New Brunswick 😢 I’m never going to find housing now with all the new immigrants we get pushed back unfortunately for housing.

[chrisministerofsmartarsery]

The Bloc vote liberal in parliment. Let Quebec take ALL the asylum seekers

[Elizabeth-vwvb]

STOP THIS NOW!!! THEY LET THEM IN..THEY CAN KEEP THEM.🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬