Law 2101 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Domestic Worker
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Pushpanathan v. canada (1998) (scc: facts, pushpanathan claimed refugee status. Canada"s interpretation must be consistent with its own obligations under the refugee convention. Were allowed to do that in order to help the scc interpret the act: law, the purpose of the immigration act is to implement the. Crtc which clearly emphasized the two different spheres of international and domestic law. Untransformed treaties: baker v. canada (1999) (scc: treaties don"t get transformed into domestic law because. Canada either doesn"t want to transform it, or it falls through the cracks: facts, baker was a jamaican national (not a canadian citizen) with 4 children born in canada. Immigration act to look at the best interests of the child. Must take the childs best interests into account. Convention [on the rights of the child] help show the values that are central to determining whether this decision was a reasonable exercise of the. Could they ever use an untransformed treaty to overturn a.
