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The Canadian Refugee System
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Refugees and persons needing protection are people in or outside Canada
who fear returning to their country of nationality or habitual residence.
In keeping with its humanitarian tradition and international obligations,
Canada provides protection to thousands of people every year.
Through its refugee protection system, Canada offers safe haven to
persons with a well-founded fear of persecution, as well as those at
risk of torture or cruel and unusual treatment or punishment. Canada’s
refugee protection system consists of two main components:
- The Refugee and Humanitarian Resettlement
Program, for people seeking protection from outside Canada; and
- Asylum in Canada, for persons making refugee protection claims
from within Canada.
Canada has signed the United Nations 1951
Geneva Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol.
This Convention protects refugees from being returned to a country where
they would face persecution.
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