Despite what the Canadian government offers to refugees on its territory in terms of services, there is a shared suffering between the Canadian government and the refugees, due to the increasing number of refugees to Canada over the past years as a result of regional conflicts in many parts of the world.

One Conservative MP revealed that the government allocates about 224 dollars a day to feed and house some foreigners who apply for asylum after entering the country illegally.

Last week, Conservative MP Lianne Rood uploaded documents on social media showing the government's response to her question about what goods and services are provided to foreigners who have applied for asylum in Canada - but her request has not yet been reviewed by immigration authorities.

The average cost of accommodation is 140 dollars per night per room, and the average meal cost is 84 dollars a day for each applicant - totaling 224 dollars per applicant per day.

The daily allowance cost may rise once considering other basic items provided for free to claimants, including hygiene items, medications, and diapers.

The official response to Rood, signed by Paul Chiang, the parliamentary secretary to the minister of diversity and inclusion, stated that asylum seekers are provided with accommodation and meals in hotels managed by IRCC - regardless of how they entered Canada - once they are transported.

Rood wrote in a comment accompanying a post dated May 7 on X that the Liberal government gives benefits to illegal border crossers ten times more than it provides to help senior Canadians, which is disgraceful.

According to the latest figures released by IRCC, there are 156,032 asylum claims pending before the agency - although not all are in Canada and residing in one of IRCC's hotels.

With the increasing number of asylum seekers filling municipal-run shelters, the Trudeau government recently started a temporary housing assistance program to provide limited temporary accommodations for asylum seekers.

In November, the program operated 3,800 rooms across Canada, housing nearly 7,000 asylum seekers at a total annual cost of 557 million dollars.

Rood's question pertained to a specific category of asylum seekers referred to in federal circles as "illegal border crossers," which are individuals who entered Canada illegally before applying for asylum internally.

In this category, pending claims reached an all-time high, and by the end of 2023, IRCC recorded approximately 42,387 pending asylum claims from irregular border crossers.

In just the last three months of 2023, 2,145 individuals filed asylum claims in Canada after entering the country illegally - at a rate of one person every hour.

During the same three-month period, authorities only processed 4,139 cases from the existing waiting list of 44,000 cases; 3,188 of them were accepted as official refugees, while 951 others were rejected.

Entry of border crossers remained high despite the fact that the Trudeau government closed the Roxham Road border crossing in March 2023.