It started last summer with 87, grew to 300, and most recently shot up to around 2,000 hotel rooms that were being utilized in Niagara Falls, Ont. to accommodate asylum seekers, With nearly 3,000 migrants having been transferred since July, community services of the city are feeling the pressure.
Although travel is resurging, the number of Americans making road trips to Canada was still down by close to half over the past two months. The mayor and several businesses in Niagara Falls, Ont., say the ArriveCAN app is keeping many of them away.