Citizenship and Immigration committee Maybe you will have more luck with this next question. How much have all levels of government had to spend, to date, on illegal border crossers since your government took office?
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Citizenship and Immigration committee How much?
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Pierre Poilievre
Citizenship and Immigration committee I'm not asking for day by day. Mr. Chair, the witness has said that he's not responsible, and I agree. Thank you.
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Pierre Poilievre
Citizenship and Immigration committee —you've said that you have this system of triaging the illegal border crossers after they enter into Canada. How much money has been spent by your government on busing illegal border crossers from one place to another?
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Pierre Poilievre
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Pierre Poilievre
Citizenship and Immigration committee Sorry, the question is, how much has been spent on busing?
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Pierre Poilievre
Citizenship and Immigration committee You're responsible for the housing portfolio, are you not?
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Pierre Poilievre
Citizenship and Immigration committee Okay. So you're saying that busing them to the housing is not your responsibility. You don't have any knowledge of how much that costs.
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Pierre Poilievre
Citizenship and Immigration committee Okay. So you don't know because it's not in your briefing notes.
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Pierre Poilievre
Citizenship and Immigration committee Next question. Earlier today we learned that there are about 800 illegal border crossers who are staying in dormitories on campuses. Students will soon return to school, and those illegal border crossers will be evicted from those dormitories. We learned this morning that they wi
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Pierre Poilievre
Citizenship and Immigration committee Who will pay for it?
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Pierre Poilievre
Citizenship and Immigration committee How much will it cost?
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Pierre Poilievre
Citizenship and Immigration committee Right. But my question—
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Pierre Poilievre
Citizenship and Immigration committee Sorry, but with respect, Mr. Vaughan, our time is very limited.
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Pierre Poilievre
Citizenship and Immigration committee You're responsible for housing. You're here to testify particularly on the illegal border crossers. Your government has made the decision to house these border crossers in hotels once they're evicted from dormitories.
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