Why is there no recent cessation cases? I'm assuming not everything gets posted on Canlii but there is not much new besides the new Uppal case.
As far as I can see it is NOT the norm for CanLII to publish cessation decisions by the IRB, so the absence of new cessation determinations in CanLII is not at all indicative of the extent to which such decisions are being made.
There are many cessation determinations by the IRB that are published at CanLII, but generally much of the information relative to the PR-refugee affected is redacted, so it can be difficult to correlate published Federal Court decisions regarding cessation decisions with the underlying IRB determination that is subject of the appeal.
So far as I can see, NONE of the IRB determinations addressed in the more recent Federal Court decisions are published IRB decisions in CanLII. This includes cases which we know were decided by the IRB more recently than the most recent published cessation decision at the IRB, including:
This suggests the norm is to NOT publish the IRB cessation determinations.
Moreover, even in regards to the published Federal Court decisions I do
NOT agree that there are "no recent cessation cases." As I said in regards to the Shah decision, that was "
just one more in what, again, is a more or less steady stream of decisions upholding RPD cessation of protected status."
It warrants remembering that the total number of PR-refugees affected by cessation proceedings is only a few hundred. This is based on stats a few years old now, but there is no reason to expect that there has been a flood of PR-refugees risking their status, if not their lives, by traveling to their home country, let alone a flood of new cessation cases.
Meanwhile, the published Federal Court decisions only reflect cessation determinations that are appealed, which is only a portion of the cessation cases.
I guess the PRRA case that
@scylla mentions is Yuan v. Canada, 2024 FC 1253
https://canlii.ca/t/k68pf which is a cessation case dating back more than a decade, even though the more recent cessation determination (after appeals) was just in 2020.
In late July there was the decision in Yu v. Canada, 2024 FC 1189
https://canlii.ca/t/k61w7 which offers almost no details; cessation was upheld; the PR-refugee failed to appear for IRB hearing and cessation decision made in her absence. Decision does not reveal date of IRB decision so I have not confirmed whether this too is also an unpublished cessation determination by the IRB (again, names and many other details are usually redacted in the published IRB cessation decisions).
MAIN THING: There is no indication that the government is backing off pursuing cessation against PR-refugees who travel to their home country. It would be unwise, if not seriously reckless, to to rely on any suggestion of that happening.
