Federal Court of Appeal Narrows Focus in Terrorism-Linked Immigration Case
The Federal Court of Appeal has rejected a request by the Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers (CARL) to intervene in Talukder v. Canada (Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness), 2025 FCA 132. The case involves an individual found inadmissible due to alleged ties to a terrorist organization.
The appeal raises two key legal issues: how to assess an organization’s “specific intent” to engage in terrorism under sections 34(1)(c) and (f) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA), and whether international law, specifically the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees applies broadly to s. 34(1).
The appeal court found the proposed interveners would not be useful to the real and actual issues involved in this appeal, noting that proposed interveners submissions were duplicative, irrelevant, overlapped with each other's submissions and would delay the appeal hearing.