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Canadian Cases in Public International Law in 2017
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- Canadian Yearbook of International Law/Annuaire canadien de droit international , Volume 55 , October 2018 , pp. 571 - 597
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- Copyright © The Canadian Yearbook of International Law/Annuaire canadien de droit international 2018
References
1 LRC 1985, c E-19.
2 LRC 1985, c G-3.
3 Turp c Canada (Affaires étrangères), 2017 CF 84 aux para 26–32 [Turp]. (Je cite la numération des paragraphes dans la version HTML du jugement qui se trouve à http://canlii.ca/t/gx77k. La numération dans la version PDF est, au moment de la rédaction, erronée.)
4 Ibid aux para 36–37.
5 Ibid au para 42.
6 [1999] 2 RCS 817 aux para 70–71.
7 Turp, supra note 3 au para 58.
8 Ibid au para 60.
9 Ibid au para 62.
10 Ibid au para 64; voir également au para 65.
11 Ibid au para 69.
12 Ibid au para 71, citant Sinnapu c Canada (Citoyenneté et Immigration), 1997 CanLII 16216 (CF).
13 Turp, supra note 3 au para 75.
14 Voir, e.g., Operation Dismantle c La Reine, [1985] 1 RCS 441 au para 38 (“Je ne doute pas que les tribunaux soient fondés à connaître de différends d’une nature politique ou mettant en cause la politique étrangère”); et, généralement, Black v Canada (Prime Minister), 2001 CanLII 8537 au para 47 (CA Ont). Contre cette position, et conformément à l’opinion de la juge Tremblay-Lamer, voir Turp c Canada (Justice), 2012 CF 893 au para 18.
15 Convention between Canada and the United States of America with respect to Taxes on Income and on Capital, 1980, Can TS 1984 No 15.
16 SC 1984, c 20.
17 RSC 1985, c 1 (5th Supp).
18 Sifto Canada Corp v The Queen, 2017 TCC 37 at paras 138–45 [Sifto].
19 Can TS 1980 No 37.
20 Sifto, supra note 18 at para 151.
21 Ibid at para 154.
22 Ibid at para 155.
23 Ibid at para 157.
24 [1985] 1 CTC 163 (FCTD).
25 Sifto, supra note 18 at para 157.
26 Ibid at paras 158–59.
27 RSC 1985, c I-17.
28 Treaty between Great Britain and the United States relating to Boundary Waters and Questions arising along the Boundary between Canada and the United States, 1909, UKTS 1910 No 23.
29 Pembina County Water Resource District v Manitoba (Government), 2017 FCA 92 at paras 5–6 [Pembina].
30 Ibid at para 40.
31 Ibid at paras 44–46. The learned judge rightly treats the concepts of treaty incorporation and treaty implementation as synonymous here, although implementation is the term preferred by legislative drafters.
32 Ibid at para 46, citing National Corn Growers Association v Canada (Import Tribunal), [1990] 2 SCR 1324 at para 75.
33 Pembina, supra note 29 at para 46.
34 Ibid at paras 60–62.
35 Ibid at para 65.
36 Ibid at para 69.
37 Citizenship Act, RSC 1985, c C-29.
38 Can TS 1966 No 29 [VCDR].
39 Vavilov v Canada (Citizenship and Immigration) 2017 FCA 132 at paras 45, 48 [Vavilov].
40 SC 1991, c 41 [FMIOA].
41 Vavilov, supra note 39 at para 59.
42 Ibid at para 62.
43 Ibid at para 69.
44 Brownlie, Ian, Principles of Public International Law, 5th ed (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998) at 391–93.Google Scholar
45 Vavilov, supra note 39 at paras 70–71.
46 Ibid at para 96.
47 Ert, Gib van, “Canadian Cases in Public International Law in 2016” (2016) 54 CYIL 568 at 574–77.Google Scholar
48 28 USC §§ 1602 [Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act].
49 RSC 1985, c S-18, as amended.
50 SC 2012, c 1, s 2.
51 Tracy v Iran (Information and Security), 2017 ONCA 549 at para 42, leave to appeal to SCC refused, 37759 (15 March 2018) [Tracy].
52 2015 SCC 59 at para 40.
53 Tracy, supra note 51 at para 43; see also para 45.
54 Ibid at para 46.
55 Ibid at para 90.
56 Ibid at paras 51–52.
57 Ibid at para 58.
58 RSC 1985, c C-46.
59 Tracy, supra note 51 at paras 59–66.
60 VCDR, supra note 38.
61 Tracy, supra note 51 at para 104.
62 FMIOA, supra note 40.
63 2010 SCC 3 at paras 25–27, 36–37. The pinpoints are as cited by Hourigan JA. Paragraphs 25–27 do not appear to be on point at all. The other paragraphs are about the prerogative but not about diplomatic status.
64 Adsett, Hugh, “Canadian Practice in International Law: At Global Affairs Canada in 2015” (2015) 53 CYIL 435 at 435–36Google Scholar, quoting from Canada’s submissions in Canadian Planning and Design Consultants Inc v Libya, 2015 ONCA 661 at paras 34, 37, 38. I am indebted to John Currie for calling my attention to this.
65 Tracy, supra note 51 at para 118.
66 See ibid at paras 97–101, where Hourigan JA found that any such immunity was lifted by the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, supra note 48, s 12(1).
67 See Tracy, supra note 51 at paras 24–25.
68 Ibid at para 119.
69 Re Chateau-Gai Wines Ltd. and Attorney-General of Canada (1970), 14 DLR (3d) 411 at 422 (Ex Ct).
70 SC 1999, c 18.
71 Extradition Treaty between the Government of Canada and the Government of India, 1987, Can TS 1987 No 14.
72 India v Badesha, 2016 BCCA 88 at para 125 (Goepel JA).
73 India v Badesha, 2017 SCC 44 at para 35 [Badesha].
74 Ibid at para 36.
75 Ibid at para 42.
76 2002 SCC 1 [Suresh].
77 Badesha, supra note 73 at para 44.
78 Ibid. In favour of such evidence, Moldaver, J cited Chahal v United Kingdom (1997), 23 EHRR 413 at paras 99–100Google Scholar and Said v The Netherlands, No 2345/-02, [2005] VI ECHR 461 at para 54.
79 Badesha, supra note 73 at para 45.
80 Ibid at para 46.
81 Ibid at para 47, citing Othman (Abu Qatada) v United Kingdom, No 8139/09, [2012] I ECHR 817 [Othman]. Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, [1987] Can TS no. 36.
82 Badesha, supra note 73 at para 48.
83 Ibid at para 51, quoting Othman, supra note 81 at para 189; see also Badesha, supra note 73 at paras 49–50.
84 Can TS 1976 No 47 [ICCPR].
85 Badesha, supra note 73 at para 60.
86 Ibid at para 61.
87 Sparks v Nova Scotia (Assistance Appeal Board), 2017 NSCA 82 at paras 9–13 [Sparks].
88 Employment Support and Income Assistance Regulations, NS Reg 25/2001, s 20(1).
89 Sparks, supra note 85 at paras 20, 30, 48.
90 Ibid at para 49.
91 Ibid at para 50, citing R v Appulonappa, supra note 51 at para 40.
92 Sparks, supra note 87 at para 51, quoting from the appellant’s factum.
93 Ibid at para 60, quoting from the intervenors’ factum.
94 Van Ert, supra note 47 at 582–84.
95 (1848), 9 ER 993 (“no court in this country can entertain questions to bring Sovereigns to account for their acts done in their Sovereign capacities abroad”).
96 Araya v Nevsun Resources Ltd, 2017 BCCA 401 at para 123 [Nevsun].
97 Ibid at paras 130–53.
98 Ibid at paras 154–58.
99 Ibid at paras 159–64.
100 Ibid at para 166.
101 Ibid at para 167.
102 Ibid at para 168.
103 Ibid at para 169.
104 Ibid at paras 172–73.
105 Ibid at para 188, referring to Bouzari v Islamic Republic of Iran (2004), 71 OR (3d) 675 (CA); Jones v Ministry of Interior of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, [2006] UKHL 26; Kazemi Estate v Islamic Republic of Iran, 2014 SCC 62.
106 Nevsun, supra note 96 at paras 196–97.
107 UNGA Res 61/295 (13 September 2007).
108 Ross River Dena Council v Canada, 2017 YKSC 59 at para 301 [Ross River].
109 Ibid at para 302.
110 Ibid at para 303.
111 Nunatukavut Community Counsel Inc. v Canada (Attorney General), 2015 FC 981.
112 Ross River, supra note 108 at para 307.
113 Ibid at para 311.
114 Ktunaxa Nation v British Columbia (Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations), 2017 SCC 54 at para 63 [Ktunaxa].
115 Ibid at para 64.
116 UNGA Res 217 A (III) (10 December 1948).
117 ICCPR, supra note 84.
118 (1984), 48 OR (2d) 395 (CA).
119 [1987] 1 SCR 313.
120 Ktunaxa, supra note 114 at para 65.
121 Ibid at para 66.