Whereas with increasing global migration, Canada is experiencing a rise in the number of people claiming asylum, some of whom do not have accommodation and seek temporary shelter in local emergency shelters, thus taking capacity from the increasing number of local residents experiencing homelessness in many local governments thereby leaving residents without shelter; And whereas immigration and refugee services are a federal responsibility and local governments frequently lack adequate numbers of shelter beds for members of their community: Therefore be it resolved that UBCM ask the Province of BC to lobby the Government of Canada for funding and that this funding be provided to local governments to enable the provision of temporary shelter and services for asylum claimants that will provide relief to emergency shelters and allow the local homeless population to access shelters in their own communities.
