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Addullahi v. Canada ( Minister of Citizenship and Immigration )

IMM-3170-95

Gibson J.

4/11/96

11 pp.

Application for judicial review of CRDD decision applicant, citizen of Somalia, not Convention refugee-Left Somalia for Kenya when father and wife killed by USC-Remarried and daughter born-In 1994, applicant's wife and daughter came to Canada and granted Convention refugee status-Applicant arrived in 1995 claiming will be killed if returns to Somalia-Application dismissed-No mention of family unity in Convention refugee definition and not basis upon which Tribunal could have found jurisdiction to apply principle of family unity in favour of applicant-Fact applicant's wife and daughter granted Convention refugee status irrelevant-Absence of reasons distinguishing panel decision in respect of wife and child not representing reviewable error on facts of matter-Tribunal's finding of Internal Flight Alternative sustainable-Nothing to indicate IFA analysis interdependent on its conclusion applicant not at risk of persecution in Somalia on basis of Convention reason-Given conclusion on IFA, whether or not Tribunal erred in differential risk analysis or in fact in adopting concept of differential risk analysis of no consequence.

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