Report to Parliament pursuant to section 42 of the International Boundary Waters Treaty Act on the Offences and Punishment and Injunctions Provisions of that Act - 2025-06-01 (English, HTML)

Report to Parliament pursuant to section 42 of the International Boundary Waters Treaty Act on the Offences and Punishment and Injunctions Provisions of that Act - 2025-06-01: English HTML file. From Global Affairs Canada, updated Oct 2026. View metadata, licence and the direct download on CanQuery.

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2026-10-09

In 2013, the Transboundary Waters Protection Act (Private Member’s Bill C-383) amended the International Boundary Waters Treaty Act (the Act) to strengthen federal protections against bulk removal of water from Canada, building on amendments made in 2001. The resulting Act includes a detailed enforcement regime with offences and penalties for contravention of the bulk water removal prohibition(s). The amendments were unanimously supported by the House of Commons and the Senate. The Transboundary Waters Protection Act came into force on July 1, 2014. Section 42 of the Act requires the Minister of Foreign Affairs to report to Parliament every ten years on the offences and punishment and injunctions provisions introduced in 2014 (sections 24-41 of the Act). It is with great pleasure that I present the first report indicating that there has been no activity under the offence and punishment sections of the Act from July 1, 2014, through June 30, 2024. Given this lack of activity, a registry has not been created as per s. 40 of the Act of convictions of corporations for offences under this Act.

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