Ramirez Pineda v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)

Decided: 2026-10-01. Docket: IMM-17284-24. Citation: 2026 FC 1211 (CanLII). Citizenship and immigration — Refugee protection — Internal Flight Alternative — Whether a viable IFA was established under Rasaratnam — Motivation of the alleged agent of persecution to pursue the claimants assessed — Objective evidence of national reach treated as unnecessary where motivation not shown — IFA found viable — Application for judicial review dismissed | Administrative law — Judicial review — Reasonableness — Whether the RPD’s finding of lack of motivation to pursue the claimants was unreasonable — Vavilov reasonableness applied to credibility and evidentiary inferences — Requests to reweigh evidence rejected — No reviewable error found — Application for judicial review dismissed | Administrative law