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September 4, 2015

Canada PM Harper: Refugee Crisis Could Drive Us "Crazy with Grief" 
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In Canada, Prime Minister Stephen Harper has spoken out about the
migration crisis after reports that the three-year-old Syrian boy Aylan
Kurdi and his family were seeking to reach Canada when they drowned in
the Mediterranean Sea earlier this week. Photos of Aylan Kurdi's
lifeless body lying on a Turkish shore have gone viral. Canada said that
it had not received the family's asylum application in response to
initial reports that the application had been denied. Prime Minister
Harper, who has come under fire for not taking in more Syrians, said
Thursday that Canada would do what it can.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper: "We could drive ourselves crazy with
grief if we look at the, as I say, the millions of people literally who
are in danger, the tens of thousands who are dying. We could drive
ourselves crazy with grief. Obviously, we do what we can do to help."

 

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