CANADA APOLOGETIC ABOUT NOT FORCING UN LAW ON PROVINCES
GENEVA, Nov 30 (LSN) On Thursday and Friday an assembly of Canadian government officials met with Members of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights to discuss Canada’s compliance with the International Covenant of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. The UN committee of “experts” demanded to know how Canada intended to fulfill its treaty obligations “since international human-rights treaties did not have automatic application in domestic law and since provincial Governments could not be forced by federal officials to adopt legislation reflecting such human- rights standards.” Demonstrating their distaste for the provincial autonomy enshrined in the Canadian constitution, the […]
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