The aunt of two small boys who drowned trying to reach Greece after fleeing the war in Syria has pleaded with Canada to improve its asylum application process. Tima Kurdi, whose sister-in-law Rehan also died during the attempt, said her brother Abdullah and his family set-out in a rubber dinghy in despair after an earlier asylum application for their brother was rejected. At the beginning of 2015 she gathered a group of sponsors including family and friends to file an application for her other brother Mohammad and his family to join her in Canada.