What is the current state of the law on international treaty obligations?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Ganis v. Canada (Minister of Justice), 2006 BCCA 543 (CanLII):
The case law is clear that “barring statutory provision, the task of dealing with international treaty obligations is for the political authorities, and is performed by the Ministers and departments in the course of fulfilling their appropriate mandates”: McVey v. United States of America, 1992 CanLII 48 (SCC), [1992] 3 S.C.R. 475 at 519.
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