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Canada PM Harper: Refugee Crisis Could Drive Us “Crazy with Grief”

HeadlineSep 04, 2015

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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