The federal government will not repatriate a Quebec mother of six from Syria following a security assessment, the woman’s lawyer says.
The woman and her children are among many foreign nationals in Syrian camps run by Kurdish forces that reclaimed the war-torn region from the extremist Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
The government gave the woman the option of letting her children join other Canadians on the repatriation flight in April, but would not let her depart pending a security assessment.
Lawyer Lawrence Greenspon said Global Affairs Canada (GAC) has now completed that assessment and will not be repatriating the woman.
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