Analyzing nearly 90,000 asylum claim decisions made by the Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) of Canada between January 2013 and 2017, CBC found that the acceptance rate has increased significantly in the past five years, surging to 70 percent in the first nine months of 2017, from 44 percent in 2013. 

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