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Suddenly a trickle of queue-jumpers became a flood.

In less than a year, Canada became a human dumping ground, for those with legitimate fears for their lives or safety in their often dictatorial and corrupt home countries but also the economic refugees that have no agreed-upon merit on humanitarian grounds.

But, when opportunity knocks, opportunists take advantage.

On Thursday, Toronto Mayor John Tory found himself crying for help from the Trudeau Liberals for creating the bind that such a poorly thought out tweet from their leader had created for Toronto ratepayers.

Tory had already got news that could not be any worse.

Starting Monday, as a response to bitching from Quebec, the Trudeau Liberals have agreed to fast-track Quebec-entry asylum seekers directly to Toronto if that is their preferred destination.

The feds are calling this their “triage” plan.

Some plan.

The direct cost to Toronto for providing the unanticipated housing and accommodation for the influx of refugee claimants has already hit $64.5 million, and that’s before any promised “fast tracking”.

Quebec warned that the majority of refugees breaching its unmanned border south of Montreal would likely be heading to Ontario and particularly the multicultural magnet of Toronto.

Quebec was not wrong. Approximately 40% of the queue-jumpers in Quebec and Manitoba are already hunkered down in Toronto.

Refugee claimants, in fact, now take up 37.6% of the city’s entire shelter system, up from 11.2% just a year earlier.