Salazar Palacios v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)

Decided: 2026-10-19. Docket: IMM-17284-25. Citation: 2026 FC 1275 (CanLII). Administrative law — Judicial review — Reasonableness — Vavilov framework — Whether the PRRA Officer’s decision lacks justification, transparency and intelligibility — Limits on reweighing and reassessing the evidence — Decision read holistically and contextually in light of the record — Application for judicial review dismissed | Citizenship and immigration — PRRA — State protection — Immigration and Refugee Protection Act — Whether the presumption of state protection was rebutted on a balance of probabilities — Requirement for relevant, reliable and convincing evidence and testing state resources — Subjective reluctance to engage the state insufficient — PRRA refusal upheld | Citizenship and immigration — PRRA —