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Stephen Harper and Alan Kurdi

: The world attention is on the international migrant crisis this week, in large part due to a single powerful image of dead Syrian boy on a Turkish beach, according to CTV. Canada federal party leaders addressed the death of Alan Kurdi, 3, while campaigning Thursday. The image is lower down in the story. Conservative Leader Stephen Harper told reporters he and his wife Laureen had reacted like any other parent might. NDP Leader Tom Mulcair, meanwhile, said it reminded him of ‘Napalm Girl,’ the screaming child photographed after a U.S. napalm attack during the Vietnam War. The first thing that crossed our mind was remembering our own son Ben at that age, he said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.