What proof is required to prove absence of state protection?
Canada (Federal), Canada
The following excerpt is from Syed v. Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration), 2000 CanLII 16201 (FC):
The locus classicus of the proof required to prove absence of state protection is found in the following dicta of Laforest J. in Attorney General for Canada v. Ward, 1993 CanLII 105 (SCC), [1993] 2 S.C.R. 689, (1993) 103 D.L.R. (4th) 1:
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