The Canada Border Services Agency has pledged that information Muslim asylum seekers gave RCMP officers about their faith and cultural beliefs will not be used in processing their refugee claims. Read more: RCMP will redact more than 5,000 records collected using questionnaire targeting Muslim asylum seekersArticle Continued BelowThree questions on an RCMP survey — which had been in use for to screen refugees at the Roxham Road crossing from New York to Quebec — specifically targeted Muslims. It asked how many times per day they prayed, or how they felt about extremist groups with Muslim membership. The RCMP now uses a new survey that does not include the questions profiling only Muslims. On Monday, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police stated they would expunge any data collected in the last 12 months concerning those questions.

Source: thestar November 29, 2017 01:52 UTC