PBO EXPOSING JUST HOW SYSTEM IS WORKING

  Bill Blair, the newly minted minister for border security, made a claim about the refugee system in question period Thursday that cannot be supported by the available facts.
  “The system is working,” he said.
  But the Parliamentary Budget Officer report gives lie to Blair’s claim the “system is working.”
In the 2017-18 fiscal year, the Immigration and Refugee Board had capacity to hear 24,000 claims. During that period there were 52,142 new asylum claims, of which illegal migrants represented 23,215. The system was flooded with claims beyond its capacity, creating a backlog of 64,929 cases.