Canadian

  • Criminal penalties in cases of parental abduction
    Criminal Code: sections 282 and 283

  • Child custody, parental authority in the event of separation, and family violence
    Divorce Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. 3 (2nd Supp.): section 16 and following

  • For Quebec: civil aspects of international and interprovincial child abduction
    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) to effectively enforce in the other signatory states the rights of custody and visitation existing in a state that is signatory to the Convention.

Article 1 of the Hague Convention of 25 October 1980