Bill C-9 explained in plain English

This bill updates the Chemical Weapons Convention Implementation Act by removing its schedule and modifying the definition of 'Convention' to ensure consistency with international amendments.

Bill C-9 amends the Chemical Weapons Convention Implementation Act. It removes the schedule from the Act and references to that schedule. The purpose is to prevent any differences between the official Convention on the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, as it may be updated, and the version previously included in the Act's schedule. It also updates the definition of "Convention" to reflect its potential amendments.

The Library of Parliament does not prepare Legislative Summaries for bills that implement treaties, conventions, agreements or administrative arrangements bills. The following is a short summary: On 10 March 2020, the Minister of Foreign Affairs introduced Bill C-9, An Act to amend the Chemical Weapons Convention Implementation Act, in the House of Commons and it was given first reading. Bill C-9 amends the Chemical Weapons Convention Implementation Act by deleting the schedule to that Act and the references to that schedule in that Act, in order to avoid potential discrepancies between the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction, as amended from time to time, and the portions of that Convention that are reproduced in that schedule.