Tourist town turned refugee camp: 2,638 asylum seekers shipped to Niagara Falls
Taxpayers are now footing a $71,000 monthly food bill as hotel stays stretch past 100 days in Canada’s honeymoon capital.

Niagara Falls — once billed as Canada’s honeymoon capital — is looking more like a taxpayer-funded refugee camp. A response to an order paper question from Conservative MP Tony Baldinelli reveals 2,638 asylum seekers have been shipped into the tourist town since January 2024, housed in local hotels for months at a time while Ottawa racks up a $71,000 monthly food bill.
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada admits the average stay ranges from 105 to 157 days depending on family size, despite a supposed “90-day limit” imposed earlier this year. That’s over three months in prime tourist hotels that would normally be booked by honeymooners and families.
Taxpayers are paying $99 per room, per night, plus $32.50 a day for meals and refreshments. In May alone, IRCC spent $71,395 just to feed the asylum seekers in Niagara Falls hotels. Multiply that across months and thousands of claimants, and the bill rockets into the millions.
Nearly four in 10 of the arrivals came from Nigeria, followed by Ethiopia, Sudan, and Uganda. Smaller groups trickled in from as far afield as Mexico, the Bahamas, and Papua New Guinea.
While the Liberals sent $282,000 to the Niagara Region to offset costs, no money was given to local charities or community groups dealing with the fallout, and there remains only one taxpayer: you.
Residents of the tourist town are left to watch as hotels fill up with asylum seekers while tourism dollars disappear.
According to the documents, transfers have now been paused, with the federal government pledging to wind down its Niagara Falls hotel operations by September 30, 2025.
Sheila Gunn Reid
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Sheila Gunn Reid is the Alberta Bureau Chief for Rebel News and host of the weekly The Gunn Show with Sheila Gunn Reid. She's a mother of three, conservative activist, and the author of best-selling books including Stop Notley.
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Bruce Atchison commented 2025-09-18 22:14:14 -0400Too many stupid people voted in the April 28th election. So the same old gang of Marxist thugs got more chances to crash our beautiful western country. It isn’t Trump’s fault or the Ukraine war which is ruining our economy. All the fault is with Liberals and the leftist loons supporting them.
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Tim Lobb commented 2025-09-18 15:20:14 -0400There are absolutely zero people making smart decisions for Canada’s nor Canadian’s future. What’s happening both here and elsewhere all around the globe are ongoing Marxist/Communist incursions being very deliberately carried out which involves vilification and replacement of the Caucasian race and attendant propaganda being pushed into our “schools” and all across media. Even the kids believe whites are “evil colonizers”. Why? Because the government trade unions (ie: Teachers) are pushing the woke Marxist garbage into the minds of their captive and receptive audiences. It’s not just the Judeo-Christian heritage which is being removed and replaced; it’s the culture, the decency, civility and the more intelligent attitude which are being removed. Uneducated, low-IQ people are much easier to control and manipulate (as is being done across the board these days. If you were being prosecuted in a Canadian court of law would you want the jury to be composed of Real born & raised Canadian citizens who’ve worked hard all their lives to improve the lives around them or a rag-tag crew of imported, mal-educated barbaric throw-backs to the 1400’s who worship a demon?. It’s no wonder the planners chose them for this invasion. Carney and his “most honorable” cabal of reprobates are up to their eyeballs in all of this. They know and they benefit from being “insiders”. You think Carney doesn’t know the real game-plan? Who they’re enabling and why? Think again. Theyre all in on a bigger agenda of Marxist Communism. Nowadays Whites are painted as “evil colonizers” etc. while anyone else of any race from any place is golden in this Marxist Utopian nightmare. Look what migrants are doing in UK right now. Do you want to see what Niagara Falls will become in a few more years, or is the out-of-control crime we already have good enough for you? This Kalergi Plan was first proposed as the "Kalergian Plan for population replacement "circa 1920 and openly discredited to the public while secretly being pushed hard by the likes of eugenicist Bill Gates Sr (yes, billy-boy’s daddy) and those hiding behind the apron of the World Economic Forum (of which Carney, Trudeau and Freeland… at least, are all members). The book spelt it all out in detail and is still available to anyone willing to do a simple search…