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Following fast on the heels of using hockey arenas, hotels and buying $7-million buildings to house the homeless and refugees, Toronto’s shelter officials have come up with yet another bright idea.

I’d like to introduce you to Toronto’s version of a refugee camp — one which will cost $10-million and will be comprised of pre-fab structures erected on vacant city property.

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This idea and the plan to add 1,000 more beds in 13 new locations (plus an additional 951 replacement beds) by 2020 — more bandaids to house the homeless — will be discussed at the city’s community services committee Wednesday.

There will be four such refugee camps in Toronto — two somewhere in downtown Toronto, one in the west end and one in the east end.

Although the addresses have not yet been divulged publicly, I can confirm that one such refugee camp will be located in Coun. John Campbell’s Etobicoke ward, and another in the Scarborough ward of Coun. Glenn DeBaeremaeker. According to shelter spokesman Patricia Anderson, the locations were selected based on the availability of city land and their proximity to transit and social services.