Premier François Legault says the federal government should force asylum seekers arriving in Quebec to move to other provinces, including people who have already settled in the province.
Legault said during a trip to Paris on Wednesday that he wants half of the asylum seekers currently in Quebec to be transferred elsewhere in the country.
The premier says it doesn’t make sense that Quebec receives about 45 percent of would-be refugees in Canada, despite accounting for only 22 percent of the population.
The federal government says it wants a fairer distribution of asylum seekers across the country, but the office of Immigration Minister Marc Miller says Ottawa won’t force provinces to take in more people….