What we have done in order to bring the question of human rights and the right of the international community to act on human rights back into the foreground is to endanger what little stability we had brought to international affairs by enshrining sovereignty as the sole operational principle of international law, or at least by treating it as though it were the only relevant principle.

BGen. Pitzul The pattern is for more of them, except that with the expansion of domestic operational law, international law, and the law of armed conflict, we see ourselves hiring reservists into the regular force.

The law of armed conflict and operational law now requires that our units going overseas deploy with legal counsel; the law has become that complex and rigorous for our units to apply on the outside.

In response to (a), the Canadian delegation to the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty Conference was as follows: Habib Massoud, deputy director, conventional weapons and space issues, non-proliferation and disarmament division, Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada, as head of the delegation; Paul Galveias, senior export control officer, export controls division, Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada; Kim Joslin, senior policy officer, non-proliferation and disarmament division, Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada; Roxane Milot, defence policy officer, directorate of strategic analysis, Department of National Defence; Major Kyle Solomon, ...[+++]defence advisor, strategic joint staff-plans, Department of National Defence; Lieutenant-Commander Gordon Thomson, defence legal advisor, directorate of international and operational law, Department of National Defence; Jeffrey Westgarth-Taylor, policy advisor, export controls division, Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada; Saad Zia, legal officer, United Nations, human rights and economic law division, Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada; and Stephen Torino, president, Canadian Shooting Sports Association. In response to (b), the documents produced for the Canadian delegation in advance of the conference were as follows: a paper entitled “Canada's Focused Views on a Future Arms Trade Treaty”, [http ...]

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Today as then we take note of the People's Republic of China as the sole and lawful government of China.