MONTREAL — Pedro Fonseca, a 43\u002Dyear\u002Dold asylum seeker from Colombia, says if he doesn’t start receiving social assistance from the Quebec government soon,…
Melissa Claisse, from the Montreal-based Welcome Collective, a local organization that assists refugee claimants, said asylum seekers face enormous difficulties finding apartments.
Fonseca is a veteran of Colombia’s military, and he said he and his wife were threatened with violence because of his past as a soldier. He said he arrived at a Montreal-area hotel on Nov. 29 and a few weeks later was moved to a shelter in downtown Montreal, while his wife and 15-year-old son remained back home in Floridablanca, about 400 kilometres northeast of the capital, Bogota.Article content
“Two of the men were sharing the bedroom, and the Venezuelan and I shared a mattress he found in the street that he placed in the living room,” Fonseca said. “There was no privacy.” He paid $380 for a one-month stay, including heating and internet. The couple arrived in Quebec through Roxham Road on Dec. 21 with their two daughters, Alejandra Ortiz, 19, and Sarah Cortes, 9, and stayed at a hotel on Montreal’s South Shore until they were able to find a two-bedroom apartment in Montreal. They moved in on Feb. 3; their rent is $1,160 a month.
The couple and their young daughter are getting $1,300 a month from the Quebec government; Ortiz receives $750.
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