Understanding Canada Treaty Series Citations

• Author: Mark Freeman, Gibran Van Ert
• Pages: 552-553

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The Treaty Section of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Interna-

tional Trade is responsible for the publication of the Canada Treaty

Series (CanTS). Most treaties currently in force for Canada, dating back

to 1928, are published in the CanTS. The CanTS has recently estab-

lished a website1which includes a partial list of treaties in force for

Canada. Other CanTS references may be found in “Treaty Action Taken

by Canada,” a section within the Canadian Yearbook of International

Law.

Throughout this book, we use CanTS citations in preference to all

others. The advantage of this practice is that the reader knows, upon

seeing the CanTS citation, that Canada has become a party to this treaty.

The style we use is as follows:

Convention on the Rights of the Child 1989 [1992] CanTS no. 3

The portion before the CanTS citation is the treaty’s name and the year

in which it was opened for signature. The figure in square brackets is

the annual volume of the CanTS in which the treaty was published.

Canada’s usual practice is to publish the treaty in the CanTS in the

same year as it came into force for Canada. Thus, if the treaty came into

force upon signature, Canada will usually publish it in the CanTS that

year. If the treaty was already in force when Canada acceded to it,

Understanding

Canada Treaty Series

Citations

Appendix 2

1 See http://www.treaty-accord.gc.ca.