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FOREIGN ASSISTANCE ACT [3 records]

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Record 1 2022-02-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Federal Administration
  • National Accounting
  • Economic Co-operation and Development
CONT

Presidential drawdown authority. [The] president has the authority to provide additional grant military assistance in an emergency. [The Foreign Assistance Act] permits the president to provide [Department of Defense] equipment and the services of [Department of Defense] personnel to a foreign government or international organization.

Key term(s)
  • presidential draw-down authority

French

Domaine(s)
  • Administration fédérale
  • Comptabilité nationale
  • Coopération et développement économiques

Spanish

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Record 2 2012-03-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Restrictive Practices (Law)
  • Economics
  • Special-Language Phraseology
CONT

Agreements respecting mutual legal assistance... Before Canada enters into an agreement, the Minister of Justice must be satisfied that...(a) the laws of the foreign state that address conduct that is similar to conduct prohibited or reviewable under this Act are, in his or her opinion, substantially similar to the relevant provisions of this Act, regardless of whether the conduct is dealt with criminally or otherwise.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pratiques restrictives (Droit)
  • Économique
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité
CONT

Conclusion d'accords d'entraide juridique [...] Le ministre de la Justice doit, avant qu'un accord ne soit conclu par le Canada, être convaincu de ce qui suit : a) le droit de l'État étranger visant les comportements qui sont semblables à ceux qui sont susceptibles de poursuite ou d'examen en vertu de la présente loi est, à son avis, semblable, au fond, aux dispositions correspondantes de la présente loi, que ces comportements relèvent ou non du droit criminel.

Spanish

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Record 3 2006-05-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Citizenship and Immigration
CONT

An officer shall allow the following persons to enter Canada following an examination : persons returning to Canada under a transfer order made under the Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Act and who, immediately before being transferred to a foreign state under the transfer order, were subject to an unenforced removal order.

OBS

transfer order: term found in the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulation, 2002.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Citoyenneté et immigration
CONT

L'agent permet, à l'issue d'un contrôle, à la personne suivante d'entrer au Canada : celle qui revient au Canada en conformité avec une ordonnance de transfèrement délivrée sous le régime de la Loi sur l'entraide juridique en matière criminelle et qui, immédiatement avant son transfèrement dans un État étranger en exécution de cette ordonnance, faisait l'objet d'une mesure de renvoi qui n'avait pas été exécutée.

OBS

ordonnance de transfèrement : terme tiré du Règlement sur l'immigration et la protection des réfugiés, 2002.

Spanish

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