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Canadian Cases in Public International Law in 2016

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2017

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Copyright © The Canadian Yearbook of International Law/Annuaire canadien de droit international 2017 

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References

1 Can TS 1994 No 2.

2 RSC 1985, c 17 (2nd Supp).

3 2011 ONCA 622; see discussion in Gib van Ert, “Canadian Cases in Public International Law in 2010–11” (2011) 49 CYIL 519 at 549–53.

4 Attorney General of Canada v Mobil, 2016 ONSC 790 at para 47; see also generally at paras 40–49.

5 SC 1998, c 34.

6 Articles of Agreement of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, 1945, Can TS 1945 No 37; Articles of Agreement of the International Development Association, 1960, Can TS 1960 No 8.

7 International Monetary Fund and International Bank for Reconstruction and Development Order, PC 1945-7421; International Development Association, International Finance Corporation and Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency Privileges and Immunities Order, SOR/2014-137.

8 World Bank Group v Wallace, 2016 SCC 15 at para 48 [World Bank].

9 Ibid at para 49.

10 Ibid at para 50.

11 Can TS 1974 No 25.

12 Can TS 1966 No 29.

13 World Bank, supra note 8 at paras 68–73.

14 Ibid at para 74.

15 [1919] UKTS 4 (Cmd 153).

16 Can TS 1948 No 2.

17 World Bank, supra note 8 at paras 74–81.

18 Ibid at para 83.

19 Ibid at para 94.

20 Ibid at para 96.

21 Ibid at para 47.

22 Now superceded by the similar New West Partnership Trade Agreement between British Columbia, Alberta, and Saskatchewan.

23 Lum v Alberta Dental Association and College (Review Panel), 2016 ABCA 154 at paras 44–45 [Lum].

24 Ibid at para 47.

25 Ibid at para 48.

26 Trade, Investment and Labour Mobility Agreement Implementation Act, SBC 2008, c 39 [TILMA] (amending sixteen BC acts to bring them into line with TILMA).

27 Lum, supra note 23 at para 49.

28 Ibid at paras 50–51.

29 National Corn Growers Assn v Canada (Import Tribunal), [1990] 2 SCR 1324 at 1371; Crown Forest Industries Ltd v Canada, [1995] 2 SCR 802 at para 44.

30 Lum, supra note 23 at para 52.

31 Ibid at para 56.

32 Ibid at para 51.

33 28 USC §§ 1602.

34 RSC 1985, c S-18 (as amended).

35 SC 2012, c 1, s 2.

36 SC 1991, c 41.

37 Tracy v Iranian Ministry of Information and Security, 2016 ONSC 3759 at paras 56, 61 [Tracy].

38 Ibid at paras 71–72.

39 Ibid at para 78. RSC 1985, c C-46.

40 Tracy, supra note 37 at paras 82–83.

41 Ibid at paras 87–88.

42 2003 SCC 72 [Beals].

43 Tracy, supra note 37 at paras 102–03, quoting Beals, supra note 42 at para 29.

44 Tracy, supra note 37 at para 145.

45 Ibid at paras 150–51.

46 Ibid at para 156. Hainey J cited the decision as Canadian Planning and Development Canada Ltd v Libya et al, (2015) 124 OR (3d) 579, but that appears to be mistaken. The correct citation appears to be Canadian Planning and Design Consultants Inc v State of Libya and Others, 2015 ONSC 2188. An appeal from that decision, in which the question of whether ministerial certificates are conclusive of diplomatic property was not addressed, was summarized in last year’s Yearbook. Gib van Ert, “Canadian Cases in Public International Law in 2015” (2015) 53 CYIL 534 at 551–52.

47 Tracy, supra note 37 at paras 124, 133.

48 LQ 2009, c 16.

49 Règlement sur la délivrance d’un permis et d’un certificat de spécialiste du Collège des médecins du Québec pour donner effet à l’arrangement conclu par l’Ordre en vertu de l’Entente entre le Québec et la France en matière de reconnaissance mutuelle des qualifications professionnelles, RLRQ, c M-9, r 20.2.

50 Bertin Mbonjo c Collège des médecins du Québec, 2016 QCCS 3033 aux para 68, 70.

51 Ibid au para 8.

52 Ibid au para 81.

53 Ibid aux para 82 à 84, citant C Emanuelli, Droit international public: contribution à l’étude du droit international selon une perspective canadienne, 3e ed (Montreal: Wilson & Lafleur, 2010) à la p 130.

54 2003 CanLII 7993 (QCCA) [UL Canada].

55 Ibid au para 81.

56 Voir, eg, B010 c Canada (Citoyenneté et Immigration), 2015 CSC 58 aux para 47 à 48.

57 Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, 25 October 1980, Can TS 1983 No 35 [Hague Convention].

58 Balev v Baggott, 2016 ONCA 680 at para 29 [Balev].

59 Ibid at paras 31, 33.

60 2004 CanLII 5548.

61 Balev, supra note 58 at para 39.

62 Ibid at paras 42–44.

63 RSO 1990, c C.12.

64 Balev, supra note 58 at para 46, citing Fulmer v Kaleo-Fulmer, [2002] OJ No 3183 (Ont SC) at para 18.

65 Balev, supra note 58 at para 56.

66 Ibid at para 82.

67 Araya v Nevsun Resources Ltd, 2016 BCSC 1856 at paras 341–43 [Araya].

68 Ibid at para 348.

69 [2014] EWCA Civ 1394. The UK Supreme Court has upheld this decision in Belhaj and Another v Straw and Others; Rahmatullah (No 1) v Ministry of Defence and Another, [2017] UKSC 3.

70 Araya, supra note 67 at para 357, quoting Habib v Commonwealth of Australia, [2010] FCAFC 12 at para 38.

71 2015 BCCA 32. See Gib van Ert, “Canadian Cases in Public International Law in 2015” (2015) 53 CYIL 534 at 540–43.

72 Araya, supra note 67 at paras 373, 375–77.

73 Ibid at paras 393, 395.

74 Ibid at para 396.

75 Ibid at para 429; see also para 484.

76 Ibid at para 442.

77 Ibid at para 445.