Canada Refugee

• An ‘impossible’ choice: Leave 5-year-old son in foster care or risk being tortured

  Canada is threatening to deport the mother, brother and sister of a five-year-old boy granted refugee protection because of a decades-old policy.

  Investigations

  Aug 10, 2021
  
• Refugee claimant from Gaza ‘horrified’ when asked why Hamas wouldn’t protect her

  An IRB adjudicator asked a female refugee claimant why she didn’t ask Hamas for protection after she alleged she was tortured by Hamas.

  Investigations

  Jun 14, 2021
  
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• Saddam Hussein cabinet minister made refugee claim so Canada could pay for dialysis treatments

  A cabinet minister in the regime of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein made a refugee claim in Canada after learning Iraq would no longer cover his medical costs.

  Investigations

  Aug 21, 2019
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• Civil rights, legal groups call on Trudeau to withdraw changes to asylum laws

  A group of civil-society and legal organizations have written a joint letter to Trudeau saying proposed legal changes would strip crucial and hard-won human-rights protections from vulnerable refugees.

  Canada

  Apr 11, 2019
• Millions more needed to tackle Canada’s refugee claims backlog: internal documents

  Documents obtained under access-to-information law show the Immigration and Refugee Board drafted costing estimates in November 2017 showing it would need $140 million annually

  Canada

  Jan 10, 2019
• Trudeau defends high number of Haitians rejected by Canada’s refugee system

  Trudeau said that while Haiti has its economic challenges, it's not a failed state and there are people from elsewhere in the world who have more urgent needs.

  Canada

  Nov 23, 2017