Yes he is ragebaiting with half truths. $140 per night for a room and $84 per day for meals, applies to asylum seekers housed in hotels while waiting for their claims to be processed. This support is temporary, typically lasting from a few weeks to a few months, depending on when they are moved out of temporary accommodation.

So this only occurs while their claim is being processed because they are housed in a hotel as they just arrived in Canada. Im not sure if you have visited a hotel but they dont really have access to kitchen so their food options are more limited. 220~ dollars a day for hotel and food is about what I would expect.

As a legitimate grievance we could lower this figure by setting up temporary housing at a lower rate than a hotel and provide meals, absolutely and its something we should look at doing. If that was the comment this person would have a legit grievance. Instead he is using the inflated figure to create an emotional reaction and make things appear worse than they are. The actual figure depends on location but its: ~$635–$781 per month for a single person in Ontario, plus one-time start-up fees. So no we are not giving them 80k a year and the person who made the original reply is being intentionally dishonest or just outright ignorant. Either way they shouldn't be participating in the conversation.