First Session, Forty-fourth Parliament, 70-71 Elizabeth II – 1 Charles III, 2021-2022-2023 |
HOUSE OF COMMONS OF CANADA |
An Act to amend the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Act, the Justice for Victims of Corrupt Foreign Officials Act (Sergei Magnitsky Law), the Broadcasting Act and the Prohibiting Cluster Munitions Act
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AS PASSED
BY THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
June 7, 2023
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This enactment amends the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Act to impose certain requirements on the Minister of Foreign Affairs in relation to international human rights. It also amends the Justice for Victims of Corrupt Foreign Officials Act (Sergei Magnitsky Law) to require the Minister of Foreign Affairs to respond to a report submitted by a parliamentary committee that recommends that sanctions be imposed under that Act against a foreign national.
In addition, this enactment amends the Broadcasting Act to prohibit the issue or renewal of a licence in relation to a broadcasting undertaking that is vulnerable to being significantly influenced by a foreign national or entity that has committed acts or omissions that the Senate or the House of Commons has recognized as genocide or that is subject to sanctions under the Justice for Victims of Corrupt Foreign Officials Act (Sergei Magnitsky Law) or under the Special Economic Measures Act.
Finally, it amends the Prohibiting Cluster Munitions Act to prohibit a person from investing in an entity that has contravened certain provisions of the Act.
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1st Session, 44th Parliament, 70-71 Elizabeth II – 1 Charles III, 2021-2022-2023 |
HOUSE OF COMMONS OF CANADA |
BILL C-281 |
An Act to amend the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Act, the Justice for Victims of Corrupt Foreign Officials Act (Sergei Magnitsky Law), the Broadcasting Act and the Prohibiting Cluster Munitions Act |
His Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:
1 This Act may be cited as the International Human Rights Act.
2013, c. 33, s. 174
(a) an outline of the measures that the Government of Canada has taken to advance human rights internationally as part of Canada’s foreign policy;
(b) a list that sets out the following information relating to prisoners of conscience for whose release the Government of Canada is actively working:
(i) the number of prisoners of conscience detained by each government or detaining authority,
(ii) the names of the prisoners of conscience,
(iii) the circumstances of the detentions,
(iv) the efforts that the Government of Canada has made to visit those prisoners and to attend their trials or hearings, including the number of requests made for such visits and the responses of the detaining governments or authorities, and
(v) other actions taken by the Government of Canada to support prisoners of conscience including those detained or experiencing treatment in contravention to human rights standards; and
(c) a description of the Government of Canada’s communications with the families of prisoners of conscience and its consultations with civil society on matters of human rights.
2017, c. 21
1991, c. 11
(a) that has committed acts or omissions that the Senate or the House of Commons has recognized as genocide; or
(b) that is the subject of an order or regulation made under section 4 of the Justice for Victims of Corrupt Foreign Officials Act (Sergei Magnitsky Law) or section 4 of the Special Economic Measures Act.
2014, c. 27
(d.1) directly or indirectly, individually or as a shareholder or partner or otherwise, acquire or have any pecuniary interest in — or make or guarantee a loan to — a person, knowing that the person has committed, or has aided or abetted in the commission of, any act referred to in paragraphs (a) to (d);
(e) attempt to commit any act referred to in paragraphs (a) to (d.1);
(f) aid, abet or counsel another person to commit any act referred to in paragraphs (a) to (d.1);
(g) conspire with another person to commit any act referred to in paragraphs (a) to (d.1); or
(h) receive, comfort or assist another person, knowing that the person has committed, or has aided or abetted in the commission of, any act referred to in paragraphs (a) to (d.1), for the purpose of enabling the person to escape.
(a) aiding, abetting or counselling another person to commit any act referred to in paragraphs 6(a) to (d.1), if it would not be an offence for that other person to commit that act;
(b) conspiring with another person to commit any act referred to in paragraphs 6(a) to (d.1), if it would not be an offence for that other person to commit that act; or
(c) receiving, comforting or assisting another person, knowing that that other person has committed, or has aided or abetted in the commission of, any act referred to in paragraphs 6(a) to (d.1), for the purpose of enabling that other person to escape, if it was not an offence for that other person to commit that act.
8 Paragraph 6(d.1) of the Prohibiting Cluster Munitions Act, as enacted by subsection 6(1) of this Act, does not apply, for a period of one year beginning the day on which section 5 of this Act comes into force, to a person in respect of a pecuniary interest that they had, or a loan or loan guarantee that they made, before that day.
Published under authority of the Speaker of the House of Commons
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