Can an applicant be considered complicit by association if he personally and knowingly participated in the crimes committed by the organization?
Canada (Federal), Canada
The following excerpt is from Tchoumbou v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration), 2008 FC 585 (CanLII):
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the applicant may be considered complicit by association if he personally and knowingly participated in the crimes committed by an organization or knowingly tolerated them (Sivakumar v. Canada (Minister of Employment and Immigration), 1993 CanLII 3012 (FCA), [1994] 1 F.C. 433 [Sivakumar]). The panel pursued its analysis along those lines.
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