On Wednesday June 6, 2017 the Permanent Representative of Canada
to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Ambassador Mark
Bailey, delivered the instrument of ratification to IAEA Director
General Yukiya Amano at a ceremony at IAEA Headquarters in Vienna,
Austria. Canada's ratification of the Convention on
Supplementary Compensation for Nuclear Damage (CSC) follows the
entry-into-force on January 1, 2017 of the Nuclear
Liability and Compensation Act, domestic
legislation that strengthened Canada's nuclear liability regime
and permitted Canada to ratify the CSC. The United States,
Canada's closest neighbour ratified the Convention in 2008. The
implications are significant for Canada as Article XIII of the CSC
provides that with few exceptions, jurisdiction over actions
concerning nuclear damage from a nuclear incident lie only with the
courts of the CSC Contracting Party within which the nuclear
incident occurs. Foreign suppliers and contractors with assets
