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Justin Trudeau has a new headache, one with a dollar sign at the front and a lot of zeros at the end.

Ontario and Quebec are demanding half a billion dollars from the Trudeau government to cover their costs for his bungled border policies and the illegal crossers still streaming into Canada.

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So far 17,120 people have been intercepted by the RCMP as they crossed illegally into Canada this year. That’s up from 16,992 in the same January to October time frame last year.

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Now Quebec has updated its demands for compensation.

The province is telling the feds they have spent $300 million dealing with the problem created by Trudeau’s #WelcometoCanada tweet. That is on top of Ontario’s $200 million claim.

In a joint statement issued by Premiers Doug Ford and Francois Legault at the end of the First Ministers Meeting in Montreal the premiers said they are “calling on the federal government to reimburse their provinces for the cost of supporting illegal migrants coming from the U.S.”