The department of Citizenship and Immigration should accept as sufficient proof of identity the refugee determination as they did up until the Tories' 1993 Bill C-86. Refugee determination involves identity because the tribunal must have a sense of who the person is to find them a refugee. The regulatory impact statement itself goes so far as to say that not all of those accepted by the IRB are in fact genuine refugees. In other words, one public body rejects the work of another public body and seeks to regain control by refusing landing. This has all the appearances of an institutional power struggle.
Most refugees have some identity documents.
The decision making is very inconsistent - between offices and between countries of origin. The standard for what is satisfactory should be clear and should be reasonable. Requiring passports is unreasonable. There is no logical connection between delays and identity. Waiting five years will do nothing to further establish personal identity.