What is the presumption of presumption of truthfulness?
Canada (Federal), Canada
The following excerpt is from Garande v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration), 2006 FC 1383 (CanLII):
The presumption of truthfulness recognized by case law according to Maldonado v. Canada (Minister of Employment and Immigration), [1980] 2 F.C. 302 (C.A.) was not applied.
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