Ilie v. Canada ( Minister of Citizenship and Immigration )
IMM-462-94
MacKay J.
22/11/94
5 pp.
Application for judicial review of CRDD decision applicant not Convention refugee-Tribunal finding no credible evidence of applicant's claim to fear persecution if forced to return to country of origin, Romania-After leaving Romania, applicant travelled through Yugoslavia to Italy, France and Belgium-Not claiming refugee status in any of countries in which briefly resident-Each of these countries signatories of 1951 Convention, 1967 Protocol-Specialized tribunal like CRDD entitled to take notice of status of countries of world in relation to international conventions which Canadian law administered by tribunal intended to implement for Canada-Tribunal authorized by Immigration Act, s. 68(4) to take notice of such matters-Also entitled to assume country adhering to international convention will meet obligation to implement convention within own territory-Tribunal's reliance upon facts of which it took notice and assumption that protection available to refugee claimants in those countries not unreasonable, specifically authorized by s. 68(4)-Tribunal not so unfair in process that Court should intervene-Entitled to consider applicant's failure to claim refugee status in other countries while travelling from July 1992 to January 1993 in Europe and to consider how evidence should be weighed in light of that-Application dismissed-Immigration Act, R.S.C., 1985, c. I-2, s. 68 (as am. by R.S.C., 1985 (4th Supp.), c. 28, s. 18; S.C. 1992, c. 49, s. 57(E)).