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  • Legal sanctions in case of parental abduction: Criminal Code: articles 282 and 283
  • Child custody, parental authority in the event of separation, family violence: Divorce Act (L.R.C. (1985), c. 3 (2nd suppl.)) paragraph 16 and following.
  • For Quebec: Act respecting the civil aspects of international and interprovincial child abduction.

The purpose of this Convention is: (a) to secure the prompt return of children wrongfully removed or retained in any signatory state (b) effectively enforce in the other signatory states the rights of custody and visitation existing state who are signatories to the Convention.

Article 1 of the Hague Convention of 25 October 1980

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