CORNWALL, ONTARIO PUT ON NOTICE

   Cornwall has been put on notice it should be ready to house asylum seekers should it become necessary.
    Representatives of Immigration Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) quietly met with Mayor Leslie O’Shaughnessy at city hall on Wednesday, and the Nav Centre’s executive-director Kim Coe-Turner confirmed that, while nothing has been confirmed, the facility has been asked to be prepared to accept people this year.
   “There are discussions ongoing with the IRCC and nothing has been formalized fully as yet,” said Coe-Turner. “But the centre has low occupancy this summer, so we do have the capacity to assist. And the centre is always on the forefront of helping the provincial and federal departments with any emergency preparedness or large-scale project event like this.”
   This is an about-face for the IRCC, which told the Standard-Freeholder in late April that “we do not plan on using the Nav Centre this year.”