OTTAWA — Canada will continue evaluating the asylum claims of people who have fled Syria, Immigration Minister Marc Miller said Tuesday, even as some European countries are pausing those claims after the fall of the Assad regime.
Miller said Canada's asylum system isn't seeing the same pressure as European counterparts such as Germany and Austria.
Canada has just shy of 1,600 pending refugee claims from Syria as of Sept. 30. Germany has more than 47,000 pending refugee claims from the country. Assad's family had been in power for 50 years, and this marked a dramatic end to his rule 14-year rule that was characterized by a brutal civil war.
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