Sense.....you has it. I'd thank you 100x if I could for bringing a number that puts things into perspective into the discussion.
As usual, there is a bunch of Facebook hysteria that divides people to the two furthest extremes of the argument with little knowledge of anything about it.

nothing wrong with refugees in canada, its just that vancouver/lower mainland is expensive thats all

attendees to a Welcoming party for refugees, in Vancouver, were pepper sprayed by some guy riding a bike

Crowd pepper-sprayed at Syrian refugee welcome party - NEWS 1130

I work in a hotel in downtown Vancouver, the government has allocated 50 rooms to syrian migrants 60% of them are children.

I think the irony is that a few thousand (out of the total of 25,000) refugees come to Vancouver/Lower Mainland area and everyone loses their minds because of whatever prejudices they may have.

Meanwhile, significantly more foreign investors - who, IMO, are doing far more damage to Canada than any refugee could ever hope to achieve - are sitting pretty in their multimillion-dollar houses because the government invited them to come and live here. And with the exception of a few articles in the news and one notable protest, nobody cares enough to do anything about it or ask the government why.

It's a numbers thing... personally I am more worried about the 100% reality that our housing market and economy has been skewed by these individuals who don't give a fuck about Canadians, rather than the 0.0001% PROBABILITY that one of these refugees MAY snap and pull off a terror attack...

How come the gov doesn't do that for our homeless?

The hotel thing is temporary housing ... like a couple of days in most cases ...

^^ we could still do that for the homeless say during winter when is really cold. So the homeless have a place to stay when is cold it will only be a few days.

It's an option, but that would be a very expensive way to do it and it would happen several times a year even in Vancouver (and several times a month in most Canadian cities during the winter) as opposed to once every ??? decades (has the Federal government ever taken on this many refugees in this short of a time period to necessitate something like this before?)

I believe there are temporary shelters for this very reason.

There are still shortages even with the shelters.

I get that. However, it's not like we're temp housing ALL Syrian refugees in Vancouver hotels.

Although I agree with the first half of your post, I'm curious to know, what % of our Vancouver housing market is owned by foreign investment?

The government does enough for them.

I spend enough time in the DTES to know that for most residents there is no point of return.

So what kind of hotels are the government putting them... if it's the fairmont or the four seasons i'll be choked.

Not sure, let me go check Facebook...OMG they each get a Buggatti and a personal butler?!?!

You want to share a hotel with a crack addict or a person who drinks till he balcks out all the time?

Some people are just not capable of living with other people.

The hotels had to bid on hosting the refugees, anyways, so it's cost controlled.

Syrians could be the savior of the canadian economy dropping wages for more jobs

I don't mind the refugees as long as we're getting women and children.

+90% of the refugees in Europe are men between the ages of 20-30. Guys that ruined their own country and want to go there for the benefits. I feel bad for Europe but its their fault for inviting them in.

^^^...don't forget about that fuck up in germany with a group of them touching women on the streets.

and hotels for homeless??..you don't want those useless fuckers stealing blankets and pillows to sell later for they're drug habit

*their

The Canadian government is targeting young families and single mothers. Single males are last on their list.

has anyone been to europe and experienced what its like with the new refugees? i still can not believe what i see on the media... its crazy

Yes coz min wage is enough to live in Vancouver....... we don't need min wage to be lower.