A Leger opinion poll in June found 43 per cent of Canadians don’t favour accepting more migrants from besieged Iran. Twenty-seven per cent were in favor. The rest were undecided.
The war-torn theocratic nation of Iran has become the second highest source country of refugee claims to Canada (after India).
Last year, more than 6,600 people from the Persian Gulf country submitted asylum requests.
The volume of applicants from the Islamic Republic of Iran, also known as Persia, is a red flag to human-rights activists who worry Canada might inadvertently take in some applicants with close ties to the country’s brutally repressive regime.
