Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow apologized to hundreds of asylum seekers who spent weeks living on the street in the city’s downtown core after being denied access to the city’s shelter system.
On Friday, Chow visited to the Revivaltime Tabernacle Church and Dominion Church International Toronto, two churches that have been providing shelter to the asylum seekers, many of whom are from Africa.
“It takes a tremendous amount of courage and strength to pick up, leave all your belongings and your friends and relatives and flee to another country,” Chow said.
“That’s who they are. They arrived here as refugees and I want to honour their
