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A Coherent and Effective Approach to Canada’s Sanctions Regimes

23 Mar 2017

Robert D. Nault CHAIR APRIL 2017 Published under the authority of the Speaker of the House of Commons SPEAKER’S PERMISSION Reproduction of the proceedings of the House of Commons and its Committees, in whole or in part and in any medium, is hereby permitted provided that the reproduction is accurate and is not presented as official. [...] Thus, the Government of Canada determined that a new legislative mechanism was needed to prevent the flight or liquidation of any such assets found in Canada before the new governments could seek their recovery.1 The Act included a five-year review clause requiring a committee of the House of Commons and of the Senate to conduct a “comprehensive review of the provisions and operation” of the Act a [...] The same is true of Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations – which grants the UN Security Council the authority to enact sanctions measures – and the International Emergencies Economic Powers Act in the U. S.9 Instead, the term sanctions is commonly used to refer to a set of measures, all of which impose some form of restriction, disruption and/or prohibition in relation to a target. [...] However, by the end of the 20th century, the Security Council’s use of sanctions had expanded so significantly that two scholars, one of whom testified before the Committee, labelled the 1990s the “sanctions decade.”11 The most prominent UN sanctions regime in the 1990s was the comprehensive trade embargo imposed on Iraq from 1991–2003 in response to that country’s invasion of Kuwait and pursuit o [...] George Lopez, who is an expert in UN sanctions regimes and a professor at the University of Notre Dame, reminded the Committee that sanctions enacted to change the behaviour of their target should be designed to leave open a path or an incentive for “engagement between the international community or the imposers of sanctions and the target so you can persuade them to change the behaviour and show
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Pages
70
Published in
Toronto, ON, CA

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