Frustrated' B.C. premier says Quebec gets immigration money 'at the expense' of Western Canada

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https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/bc-frustrated-quebec-immigration-money 

Eby told a news conference to mark the end of the annual Western Premiers’ Conference on Monday that Ottawa’s offer of $750 million to Quebec to help pay for a surge in temporary residents there is frustrating, and B.C. should also get a share.

Eby said there are 10,000 people coming to British Columbia every 37 days, refugees have to stay in homeless shelters and international students don’t have support.

“And so to see a single-province agreement with Quebec, is an underlining of a sense of frustration that I heard around the table,” he said.

“I won’t put this on anyone else, but I’ll say for British Columbia, how frustrated we are to see the money being showered down on Quebec and Ontario, and us scrabbling around for what’s left over. It’s not acceptable.”

Quebec Premier Francois Legault had said the offer from Ottawa came after he asked for $1 billion to cover costs associated with a surge in temporary residents.

Eby said Canadians are seeing resources go to Ontario and Quebec “at the expense, in my opinion, of the West.”

“That announcement today with Quebec, frankly, is the straw that broke this camel’s back,” he said on Monday.

“I cannot understand how that could happen. I cannot understand why we cannot get a per capita share at a minimum.”

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Just now, CdnFox said:

“I won’t put this on anyone else, but I’ll say for British Columbia, how frustrated we are to see the money being showered down on Quebec and Ontario, and us scrabbling around for what’s left over. It’s not acceptable.”

He must be new here

 This is more evidence that Trudeau is out of touch and is circling the wagons. Historically the liberals when pushed try and curry favor in Quebec and Ontario exclusively. Historically you could pretty much win an election with just those two. Western Canada was basically a tiebreaker.

Trudeua is obviously trying for that - sacrificing support in the west to gain support in quebec. That's certainly right out of his daddy's playbook.

But those days have changed. The west now has more votes than Quebec. And the bloc tends to take a lot of the quebec seats out of the running.  it has become very hard to win a majority without decent support in the west even if you've got strong support in ontario. And the west is picking up even more seats this go around.

He's obviously in survival mode but he's setting them up for failure.