Date: 19980130
Docket: IMM-1007-97
BETWEEN:
RIZWAN SHAUKAT CHAUDHRY
ABID ALI CHAUDHRY
Applicants
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THE MINISTER OF CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION
Respondent
REASONS FOR ORDER
REED, J. (orally)
[1] I am not persuaded that there are grounds to set aside the C.R.D.D. decision. As I understand that decision, from counsels' arguments and from my own reading of it, it is based on a lack of persuasive evidence. The evidence was not persuasive because it lacked detail and was very general in nature. No explanation was given as to why an ordinary PPP member, engaged in the rather minor activities described, would become the target for such continuous pursuit as was described. No explanation was given as to
whether or not the applicants' father could obtain state protection now that the PPP are in power - indeed that party was in power when the applicants left Pakistan for Canada.
[2] There is not documentary evidence supporting the specific allegations that are made. The oral evidence was, as noted, lacking in details.
[3] Evaluations of the evidence by tribunals are not subject to re-evaluation by the Court on judicial review unless there is some unreasonableness about that evaluation. This does not exist in this case.
[4] For the reasons given the application will be dismissed.
"B. Reed"
Judge
Toronto, Ontario
January 30, 1998
FEDERAL COURT OF CANADA
Names of Counsel and Solicitors of Record
DOCKET: IMM-1007-97
| STYLE OF CAUSE: RIZWAN SHAUKAT CHAUDHRY |
ABID ALI CHAUDHRY
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| THE MINISTER OF CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION |
DATE OF HEARING: JANUARY 30, 1998
PLACE OF HEARING: TORONTO, ONTARIO
REASONS FOR ORDER ORALLY BY: REED, J.
DATED: JANUARY 28, 1998
APPEARANCES:
Mr. Hart A. Kaminker
For the Applicants
Ms. Lori Hendriks
For the Respondent
SOLICITORS OF RECORD: Mamann, Kranc
Barristers & Solicitors
212 King Street West
Suite 410
Toronto, Ontario
M5H 1K5
For the Applicants
George Thomson
Deputy Attorney General
of Canada
For the Respondent
FEDERAL COURT OF CANADA
Date: 19980130
Docket: IMM-1007-97
BETWEEN:
RIZWAN SHAUKAT CHAUDHRY
ABID ALI CHAUDHRY
Applicants
- and -
| THE MINISTER OF CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION |
Respondent
REASONS FOR ORDER