Tesfay v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)

Decided: 2026-09-14. Docket: IMM-1305-25. Citation: 2026 FC 1153 (CanLII). Administrative law — Judicial review — Reasonableness — Adverse credibility finding based on inconsistency — Whether Officer’s decision lacked transparency, intelligibility and justification — Vavilov framework applied to credibility assessment — Peripheral details treated as determinative — Decision set aside and matter remitted for redetermination by a different officer | Administrative law — Reasons and analysis — Credibility — Mischaracterisation of inconsistency — Whether inconsistency went to the core of the refugee claim — Failure to analyse mandatory, indefinite military conscription, imprisonment and threats — Peripheral issue used to dismiss claim without further analysis — Unreasonable decision found — Ap