Date: 19971216
Docket: IMM-4796-96
BETWEEN:
S M AMINUL HAQUE,
SHAMPA HAQUE,
Applicants,
- and -
THE MINISTER OF CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION,
Respondent.
REASONS FOR ORDER
TREMBLAY-LAMER J.:
[1] This is an application for judicial review of a decision of the Convention Refugee Determination Division of the Immigration and Refugee Board denying the Applicants refugee status.
[2] The Applicants are a married couple from Bangladesh. The male Applicant claims to have been persecuted due to his political opinions and his membership in the Jatiya Party.
[3] As for his wife, she bases her claim for refugee status on her husband's, as well as invokes religion as a Convention ground. She is Christian and has purportedly encountered difficulties with Muslim fundamentalists.
[4] The Board, however, found that the Applicants lacked credibility, stating that their testimony was fraught with inconsistencies and implausibilities.
[5] It has been recognized many times over that questions of credibility are entirely within the Board's jurisdiction. Having reviewed the inconsistencies and implausibilities identified by the Board, I believe that its findings were open to it on the evidence. Accordingly, this Court should not intervene in its decision.
[6] The application for judicial review is dismissed.
[7] Neither counsel recommended certification of a question in this matter.
Danièle Tremblay-Lamer
JUDGE
Montreal, Quebec
December 16, 1997
FEDERAL COURT OF TRIAL
Date: 19971216
Docket: IMM-4796-96
BETWEEN:
S M AMINUL HAQUE,
SHAMPA HAQUE,
Applicants,
- and -
THE MINISTER OF CITIZENSHIP
AND IMMIGRATION,
Respondent.
REASONS FOR ORDER
FEDERAL COURT OF CANADA
NAMES OF COUNSEL AND SOLICITORS OF RECORD
COURT NO:IMM-4796-96
STYLE OF CAUSE:S M AMINUL HAQUE,
SHAMPA HAQUE,
Applicants,
- and -
| THE MINISTER OF CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION, |
Respondent.
PLACE OF HEARING: Montreal, Quebec
DATE OF HEARING: December 16th, 1997
REASONS FOR ORDER BY: The Honourable Madame Justice
Tremblay-Lamer
DATED: December 16th, 1997
APPEARANCE: Me Jean-Michel Montbriand for the Applicants
Me Édith Savard for the respondent
SOLICITORS OF RECORD:
Doyon, Guertin, Plamondon & Montbriand
Montréal, Québec for the Applicants
George Thomson
Deputy Attorney General
of Canada
Ottawa, Ontario for the Respondent