Canada's Place in the Private International Legal Order

Canada is a party to the United Nations Conventions on foreign arbitral awards and on the international sale of goods; to the Hague Conventions on child abduction, the service of documents abroad, and the recognition of trusts; and to the Unidroit Convention on the form of an international will. [...] It provides procedures for adopting children between member states, with a view to protecting the best interests of the children and to ensuring the certainty of the legal relations that result from the adoption. [...] The American counterpart of the Uniform Law Conference adopted a uniform statute in 1990 with the same rule as the ULC agreed to in 1989. [...] The draft to date deals with the legal effect of electronic signatures, the concept of "original" electronic documents, the law of evidence, and the relationship between sources and communicators of electronic commercial messages. [...] [38] The Convention deals with the right or duty of one country to protect a foreign child within its territory, with the consequences of the child's legal status, and the care of the child's property.