Foreign Missions and International Organizations Act

Delegated Regulations of the Foreign Missions and International Organizations Act

The following subordinate legislation were released under the authority of the Foreign Missions and International Organizations Act. Statutory Instruments, including regulations, are concerned with highly specific legislative detail while enabling statutes, like the Foreign Missions and International Organizations Act, deal more with general matters or principles for the subject (as in the field of the Foreign Missions and International Organizations Act) concerned. For more information about regulations, other statutory instruments (IS) and other documents, including statutory orders and regulations (SOR) related to the Foreign Missions and International Organizations Act, see here. Research also the Foreign Missions and International Organizations Act in the Index of Canadian Regulations, which lists most federal regulations and statutory instruments in force.

• Administrative and Technical Staff of the Embassy of the United States and Families Duty and Tax Relief Privileges Order
• Administrative and Technical Staff of the Embassy of the United States and Families Privileges and Immunities Order
• African Development Bank Privileges and Immunities Order
• African Development Fund Privileges and Immunities Order
• Application of Provisions of the Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations, Regulations Clarifying
• Asian Development Bank Privileges and Immunities Order
• Caribbean Development Bank Privileges and Immunities Order
• CITEL (Inter-American Telecommunication Commission) Meetings Privileges and Immunities Order
• Commission for Environmental Cooperation Privileges and Immunities in Canada Order
• Commonwealth of Learning, an Agency, Privileges and Immunities Order, 1988
• Commonwealth Secretariat Privileges and Immunities Order
• Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence Units Privileges and Immunities Order
• European Communities Privileges and Immunities Order
• European Space Agency Privileges Order
• Experts on Missions for the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons Privileges and Immunities in Canada Order
• FAO Privileges and Immunities Order
• Food and Agricultural Organization Remission Order
• Great Lakes Fishery Commission Privileges and Immunities Order
• Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office Privileges and Immunities Order
• ICAO Privileges and Immunities Order
• I.C.S.P.R.C.P. Status Order
• I.I.C.A. Privileges and Immunities Order
• Inter-American Development Bank Privileges and Immunities Order
• International Commission for the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Privileges and Immunities Order
• International Cospas-Sarsat Programme Privileges and Immunities Order
• International Criminal Court Privileges and Immunities Order
• International Joint Commission Immunity Order
• International Maritime Satellite Organization (INMARSAT) Privileges and Immunities Order
• International North Pacific Fisheries Commission Privileges and Immunities Order
• International Organization for Migration Privileges and Immunities Order
• International Telecommunication Union Privileges and Immunities Order
• International Telecommunications Satellite Organization (INTELSAT) Privileges and Immunities Order
• North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission Privileges and Immunities Order
• North Pacific Marine Science Organization Privileges and Immunities Order

Some Early History

The year 1851 is likewise famous for the Great Exhibition. Britain had adopted free trade, to her great advantage. All the nations of the world were expected to follow her example and remove the barriers to commerce to the benefit of all. The freedom of intercourse between nation and nation was to slay the jealousy and suspicion which lead to war. To inaugurate the new era of peace and unfettered trade the Crystal Palace was reared in Hyde Park—’the palace made of windies,’ as Thackeray calls it—and filled with the products of the world. The idea originated with the Prince Consort, and it was worthy of him. For the first time the various nations could compare their resources and manufactures with one another. Canada had her share in it. As a demonstration of general British superiority in manufactures the Great Exhibition was a great success; but as heralding an era of universal peace it was a mournful failure. Three years later England, France, and Sardinia were fighting Russia to prop the rotten empire of the Turk.

Then came the Great Mutiny; then the four years of fratricidal strife between the Northern and Southern States; then the war of Prussia and Austria; then the overthrow of France by Germany. All these events had their influence on Canada. The 100th Regiment was raised in Canada for the Crimea. Joseph Howe went to New York on a desperate recruiting mission. Nova Scotia ordained a public fast on the news of the massacre of white women and children by the Sepoys. Thousands of Canadians enlisted in the Northern armies. The Papal Zouaves went from Quebec to the aid of the Pope against Garibaldi. All these were symptoms that Canadians were beginning to outgrow their narrow provincialism and to perceive their relations to the outer world, and especially towards Britain. The country was reaching out towards the rôle which in our own day she has played in the Great War.

Meanwhile Lord Elgin was playing his part as constitutional governor, standing by his principle of accepting democracy even when democracy went wrong. Though inconspicuous, he was always planning for the benefit of the country he had in charge. He had visions of an Imperial zollverein, but he perceived clearly the immense and immediate advantages of freer trade relations between the British American colonies and the United States. Those once attained, he thought the danger of Annexation past. His activities in his last year of office prove that a man of ability may be a strictly constitutional governor and yet preserve a power of initiative, of almost inestimable value. In 1853 Lord Elgin paid a visit to England, and while there obtained full powers to negotiate with the United States. For several years Hincks had been doing his best to induce the American government to consider the question of reciprocity in natural products with Canada, but without avail.

Bills to this effect had even been introduced into Congress; but they never got beyond the preliminary stages. New England was inclined to favour the proposal, for agriculture was declining there before the growth of manufactures. The South favoured reciprocity rather than Annexation, for the ‘irrepressible conflict’ between the slave states and the free states was every day coming closer to observant eyes, and including Canada in the Union meant a great accession of strength to the already populous North. Opposition came from the farmers of the Northern states, who feared the competition of a country, as yet, almost entirely devoted to agriculture. General indifference, the opposition of a section, combined with the feeling that Canada had nothing adequate to offer in return for access to the huge American market, removed reciprocity from the domain of practical politics. The scale was turned by the codfish question. (1)

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Some Canadian Regulations and other Statutory Instruments

• Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization Privileges and Immunities Order
• Organisation internationale de la Francophonie and the Institut de l’énergie et de l’environnement de la FrancophoniePrivileges and Immunities Order
• Privileges and Immunities of the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity Order
• Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and Its Institute for Statistics, Order Respecting the
• Sinai Multinational Force and Observers Privileges and Immunities Order, 1990
• UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) Remission Order
• Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development Privileges and Immunities Order
• Organization of American States Privileges and Immunities in Canada Order
• Pacific Salmon Commission Privileges and Immunities Order
• Privileges and Immunities in relation to the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty Organization and its Provisional Technical Secretariat, Order Respecting
• Privileges and Immunities Accession Order (United Nations)
• Privileges and Immunities (International Labour Organization) Order
• United Nations Remission Order
• World Meteorological Organization Privileges and Immunities Order

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Notes

1. Archibald MacMechan, “Popular Govrerment. A Chronicle of the Union of 1841” (1916), Toronto, Glasgow, Brook and Company

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