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Toronto Region District

Toronto region district: Chris Alexander has suspended his re-election campaign in a Toronto region district in Canada October 19 federal election following revelations that he turned down a refugee application delivered directly to him in March of this year on behalf of the Syrian family whose tragedy has just exploded into international news, according to Rabble. Early on September 2, Abdullah and Rihan Kurdi boarded a boat at Bodrum, Turkey headed for the Greek island of Kos. The Russia-hating minister of immigration of Canada has been caught in a string of lies in his efforts to defend Canada miserable record of refusing refugee applications from Syrian victims of the civil war in that country. With them were their two toddlers, Aylan, three, and Galip, five. The mother and children drowned, the father survived. Their boat and an accompanying boat sank shortly after leaving the Turkish coast. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.