Aliens — Criteria for grant of refugee status — Requirements of “Convention refugee” — Well-founded fear of persecution — Extent of probability or possibility required to fulfil objective test of whether fear of persecution well-founded — Canada Immigration Act 1976 — Geneva Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, 1951

Relationship of international law and municipal law — Treaties and foreign judgments as aid to interpretation of municipal statute — Criteria for grant of refugee status — Extent to which well-founded fear of persecution must be objectively based — The law of Canada