Zrig v. Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration)

Abstract

215Aliens — Entry — Asylum — Refugees — Geneva Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, 1951 — Exception for crimes under Article 1F(a)-(c) — Serious non-political crime — Well-founded fear of persecution — Application of concept of complicity by association under Article 1F(a)-(b)International criminal law — Forms of criminal responsibility — Complicity — Crimes against the principles and purposes of the United NationsTreaties — Interpretation of Article 1F(b) of the Geneva Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, 1951 — Travaux préparatoires — Whether preferable for courts of parties to international convention to adopt same interpretation of provisions of convention — Interpretation of Article 1(F) (b) by British, Australian and French courts — The law of Canada