"My biggest concern you know, after the COVID-19 if they reject my claim and I have to go back to Haiti."

The Canadian government has announced it will provide $250 million to Quebec to help with costs related to help resettle and provide support to refugees and asylum seekers.

It is not clear how many of the asylum seekers may have held U.S. permanent residency status versus a soon-to-expire temporary protected status or even a travel visa.

The federal government will provide $50 million to Quebec, Ontario and Manitoba to help pay for some of the costs they have borne as a result of the influx of asylum seekers illegally crossing the Canada-U.S. border.

The federal government will provide $50 million to Quebec, Ontario and Manitoba to help pay for some of the costs they have borne as a result of the influx of asylum seekers illegally crossing the Canada-U.S. border.

Almost 96 per cent of asylum seekers who have crossed illegally into Canada so far in 2018 have done so through the Quebec border.

Quebec's Opposition is calling on the prime minister to send out a tweet telling would-be asylum seekers around the world they will not get a free pass into Canada.

A working group has been struck to reach an agreement on how Quebec will be reimbursed for $146 million in unanticipated costs it says it has shouldered as a result of the influx of border crossers last year.

The year started off in tragedy, followed by thousands stranded in a massive snowstorm, provincewide flooding and a huge influx of asylum seekers coming across the border.

Early Christmas gift for new asylum seekers from Nigeria who now call Canada home.