City of Ottawa

$10,100,000.00 CAD

≈ $0.24 for every person in Canada ≈ 131 Canadians' average pay for a year

Department: Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada
Program: Interim Housing Assistance Program
Recipient country: Canada
Fiscal year: 2019-2020
Agreement period: June 26, 2019 – March 31, 2020
Reference: cic:094-2019-2020-Q1-A208506001 (L2)

Published purpose

Financial grant towards managing temporary housing provided to asylum claimants, including irregular migration, in recognition of extraordinary or incremental costs incurred

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This is a federal grant to the City of Ottawa to help cover extraordinary costs of providing temporary housing for asylum claimants, including those arriving through irregular migration.

Category: Other Primarily funds activity in Canada

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