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CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION

Status in Canada

Convention Refugees

Musansi v. Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration)

IMM-5470-99

Pinard J.

23/1/01

4 pp.

Application for judicial review of CRDD decision applicants not refugees within meaning of Convention, since excluded from application of Convention under Art. 1F(a) thereof--Applicants citizens of Democratic Republic of Congo and members of Parti lumumbiste unifié (PALU)--Applicant excluded on grounds of complicity in acts attributed to Services d'actions et de renseignements militaires (SARM) where he worked as civilian classifying social affairs files--Evidence does not show "personal and knowing participation" referred to in case law--Application granted--Applicant able to explain why did not quit employment promptly, and that he was able to alert and save members of PALU targeted by SARM--United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, July 28, 1951, [1969] Can. T.S. No. 6, Art. 1F(a).

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