¹ Editor’s note: Bill S-2 was introduced in Senate by Hon. David Tkachuk (Acting Deputy Leader of the Government) on October 18, 2007. The Bill received Royal Assent on December 14, 2007; S.C. 2007, c. 32.

² Editor’s note: Bill C-3 was introduced in the House of Commons by Hon. Stock-well Day (the minister of public safety) on 22 October 2007. The bill received Royal Assent on 14 February 2008: S.C. 2008, c. 3.

³ Editor’s note: Charkaoui v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration), [2007] 1 S.C.R. 350 (finding that the procedure of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, S.C. 2001, c. 27, for the judicial approval of security certificates is inconsistent with the Charter, and hence of no force or effect).

⁴ Editor’s note: Bill C-5 was introduced in the House of Commons by Hon. Loyola Hearn (for the minister of natural resources) on 26 October 2007.

⁵ Editor’s note: Canada’s Nuclear Liability Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. N-28, was passed in 1970 and came into force in 1976, after an agreement was struck with a group now known as the Nuclear Insurance Association of Canada to provide the liability coverage. (Canada, Senate Standing Committee on Energy, the Environment and Natural Resources, “Canada’s Nuclear Reactors, How Much Safety is Enough” (Interim Report), June 2001, at 29).

⁶ Editor’s note: OECD Paris Convention on Third Party Liability in the Field of Nuclear Energy, 29 July 1960 (entered into force 1 April 1968) [“Paris Conven-tion”]; Brussels Supplementary Convention on Nuclear Third Party Liability, 31 January 1963 (entered into force 4 December 1974) [“Brussels Supplementary Convention”]; at <http://www.nea.fr/html/law/legal-documents.html#agreements>. As of 20 April 2009, Canada was not a signatory to these conventions.

⁷ Editor’s note: International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna Convention on Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage, 21 May 1963 (entered into force 12 November 1977); at <http://www.iaea.org/Publications/Documents/Conventions/liability.html>. As of 20 April 2009, Canada was not a signatory to this convention.

⁸ Editor’s note: Bill C-8 was introduced in the House of Commons by Hon. Lawrence Cannon (minister of transport, infrastructure and communities) on 29 October 2007. The bill received Royal Assent on 28 February 2008: S.C. 2008, c. 5.

⁹ Editor’s note: Bill C-9 was introduced in the House of Commons by Hon. Maxime Bernier (minister of foreign affairs) on 29 October 2007. The bill received Royal Assent on 13 March 2008: S.C. 2008, c. 8.

¹⁰ Editor’s note: Convention on the Settlement of Investment Disputes Between States and Nationals of Other States, 18 March 1965, 575 U.N.T.S. 159 (entered into force 14 October 1966).

¹¹ Editor’s note: Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards, 10 June 1958, 330 U.N.T.S. 38, (1968) 7 I.L.M. 1046 (entered into force 7 June 1959). Canada is a party to the convention by ratification since 12 May 1986. When ratifying the convention, Canada declared that it would apply the convention only to differences arising out of legal relationships, whether contractual or not, that were considered commercial under the laws of Canada, except in the case of the province of Québec, where the law did not provide for such limitation. Canada also declared that it would apply the convention only to recognition and enforcement of awards made in the territory of another contracting state.

¹² Editor’s note: Bill C-14 was introduced in the House of Commons by Hon. John Baird (Minister of Transport, Infrastructure and Communities) on 29 October 2007.

¹³ Editor’s note: Canada Post Corporation Act, R.S.C 1985, c. C-10, ss. 14, 15.

¹⁴ Editor’s note: Bill C-23 was introduced in the House of Commons by Hon. Lawrence Cannon (Minister of Transport, Infrastructure and Communities) on 16 November 2007. The bill received Royal Assent on 18 June 2008: S.C. 2008, c. 21.

¹⁵ Editor’s note: Bill C-38 was introduced in the House of Commons by Hon. Peter Van Loan (for the Minister of Natural Resources) on 11 December 2007. The Bill received Royal Assent on 12 December 2007: S.C. 2007, c. 31.

¹⁶ Editor’s note: Bill C-39 was introduced in the House of Commons by Hon. Gerry Ritz (Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food and Minister for the Canadian Wheat Board) on 13 December 2007.

¹⁷ Editor’s note: Bill C-44 was introduced in the House of Commons by Hon. Gerry Ritz (Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food) on February 25, 2008. The bill received Royal Assent on 28 February 2008: S.C. 2008, c. 7.

¹⁸ Editor’s note: Bill C-55 was introduced in the House of Commons by Hon. David Emerson (Minister of International Trade and Minister for the Pacific Gateway and the Vancouver-Whistler Olympics) on 5 May 2008. The bill is currently before the International Trade Committee of Parliament.

¹⁹ Editor’s note: Montreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer, 16 September 1987, 1522 U.N.T.S. 3 (entered into force 1 January 1989). Canada signed the Protocol on 16 September 1987 and ratified it on 30 June 1988.

²⁰ See also Extradition in the International Criminal Law section later in this chapter.

²¹ Editor’s note: Bill C-44, An Act to Amend the Canadian Human Rights Act, was introduced in the House of Commons by Hon. Jim Prentice (Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development and Federal Interlocutor for Métis and Non-Status Indians) on 13 December 2006. As of 20 April 2009, the bill is before the Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development.

²² See also, Border Security / La sécurité à la frontière in the Human Rights section earlier in this chapter.

²³ Editor’s note: An Act to amend the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts (Bill C-26).

²⁴ Editor’s note: An Act to Amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, introduced by Hon. Gary Lunn (for the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) on 1 November 2007.

²⁵ Editor’s note: Oslo Conference on Cluster Munitions, Declaration, 22—23 February 2007, at <http://www.clusterprocess.org/>. Canada is a signatory to the Convention on Cluster Munitions, 30 May 2008 (not yet in force; see at <http://www.clusterconvention.org/>).

²⁶ Editor’s note: Canadian Council for Refugees v. Canada, [2007] F.C.J. No. 1583 (F.C.).

²⁷ Editor’s note: International Boundary Waters Treaty Act, R.S.C 1985, c. I-17.

²⁸ Editor’s note: Finance Canada, 2007 Economic Statement (by Hon. James M. Flaherty, Minister of Finance), 30 October 2007, <http://www.fin.gc.ca/ec2007/speech/speech-discours-eng.asp>.

²⁹ Editor’s note: Softwood Lumber Agreement between the Government of Canada and the Government of the United States of America, 12 September 2006 (entered into force 12 October 2006), <http://www.international.gc.ca>.

³⁰ Editor’s note: Since October 2007, Canada has participated in preliminary discussions with the United States, Mexico, the European Union, Switzerland, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand, Australia, Morocco, and Singapore towards an Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. These discussions aim to develop international standards to better combat the trade in counterfeit trade-marked and pirated copyright goods (see the chronology of the discussions and public consultations in Canada, Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Trade and Intellectual Property: Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, at <http://www.international.gc.ca/trade-agreements-accords-commerciaux/fo/intellect_property.aspx>).

³¹ Editor’s note: The Free Trade Agreement with the states of the European Free Trade Association, including Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, and Switzerland.

³² Editor’s note: NAFO Amendment to the Convention on Future Multilateral Cooperation in the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries (GC Doc. 07/4; 28 September 2007), Art. VI (10) provides: “The Commission may adopt measures on matters set out in paragraphs 8 and 9 [conservation and management measures] concerning an area under national jurisdiction of a Contracting Party, provided that the coastal State in question so requests and the measure receives its affirmative vote.”

³³ Editor’s note: Canada, House of Commons, Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans, Custodial Management Outside Canada’s 200-Mile Limit, March 2003, at 1, <http://www2.parl.gc.ca/CommitteeBusiness/>.

³⁴ Editor’s note: On September 28, 2007, at the 29th annual meeting of the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO) in Lisbon, NAFO members adopted changes to the NAFO Convention on Future Multilateral Cooperation in the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries, of 24 October 1978 (entered into force 1 January 1979), in the form of the Amendment to the Convention on Future Multilateral Cooperation (GC Doc. 07/4). The reformed convention implements ecosystem-based management measures that protect sensitive marine ecosystems and ensure the sustainability of straddling fish stocks in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean. The Amendment also protects Canada’s sovereign rights over its 200-mile exclusive economic zone. (See, Canada, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Canada’s Actions Against Overfishing, September 28, 2007, at <http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca>).