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RSS FeedsCost of refugee board chair´s car and chauffeur brings criticism
(The Star Movies)

 
 

20 march 2019 23:33:11

 
Cost of refugee board chair´s car and chauffeur brings criticism
(The Star Movies)
 


The head of Canada’s refugee board has been given a car and chauffeur at a time his office is stretched trying to tackle a surge of asylum seekers entering from the U.S., the Star has learned.Richard Wex, who was appointed chair of the beleaguered Immigration and Refugee Board in July, is the first person in charge of the tribunal to be afforded the benefit — at a cost of $78,562 a year. Critics suggest the money could be better used to hire another refugee judge. (A judge’s current starting salary is $94,121 a year.) “At a time when we need more adjudicators to have refugee claims processed faster, how is this going to have a positive impact on the processing time?” asked Francisco Rico-Martinez, of Toronto’s FCJ Refugee Centre and past chair of the Canadian Council for Refugees.“This is problematic when the board is struggling to find resources and innovative ways to improve efficiency to deal with the growing backlog.”The refugee board has been besieged by a surge of asylum seekers crossing into Canada over the U.S. border since the end of 2016. The latest statistics show it has 74,645 outstanding claims with wait times for a hearing hovering at around two years. The injection of $74 million from the federal government in 2018 has allowed the board to hire 50 additional asylum judges and 185 support staff to try to reduce the backlog.“Is that what (the funding) is supposed to be used for?” asked one disgruntled board staffer, referring to Wex’s car and chauffeur. There are currently 125 asylum judges, including the 50 new hires, and they are each expected to process at least 150 claims a year, determining who needs protection among the thousands of refugee claimants who come to Canada annually.(The Trudeau government’s 2019 budget on Tuesday slated $208 million for the refugee board over two years to tackle the backlog, with the aim of processing 50,000 cases per year, up from the current ...


 
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