Re Attorney-General of Canada and Ward; United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees et al.

Abstract

Aliens — Refugees — Claim for refugee status — Well-founded fear of persecution — Whether State complicity in persecution required — Whether sufficient that State unable to protect citizen from persecution inflicted by private individuals — Dual nationality — Requirement that capacity of all claimant's States of nationality to protect claimant be assessed — Paramilitary organization of which claimant formerly a member ordering his death — Whether persecution by reason of membership of “a particular social group” — Whether persecution for reason of “political opinion” — Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, 1951 — Canadian Immigration Act 1985

Treaties — Interpretation — Travaux préparatoires — As guide to interpretation of municipal legislation — Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, 1951 — Canadian Immigration Act 1985 — Criteria for grant of refugee status — The law of Canada