"Canada Completes Ratification of Convention on Cybercrime

July 8, 2015 - Ottawa, Ontario - Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada

The Honourable Rob Nicholson, P.C., Q.C., M.P. for Niagara Falls, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the Honourable Peter MacKay, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, today announced that Canada has ratified the Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime, commonly known as the Budapest Convention.

The Budapest Convention is an international treaty that provides signatory states with legal tools to help in the investigation and prosecution of computer crime, including Internet-based crime, and crime involving electronic evidence. Because of the borderless nature of cybercrime, cooperation between countries is essential to investigate and prosecute it effectively. Ratification of the convention strengthens Canada’s ability to cooperate fully with its international partners in the fight against cybercrime, including by enhancing Canadian law enforcement agencies’ ability to request assistance, as well as their ability to respond to foreign requests. Canada’s ratification is part of a broader effort to ensure that cyberspace remains a free, open and secure environment for Canadians.

Quick Facts

• Canada’s Protecting Canadians from Online Crime Act provides police with the necessary means to investigate crime in today’s high-tech environment; the act put Canada in a position to ratify the Budapest Convention.
• As of July 2015, 47 states, including Canada and all other G-7 countries, had ratified or acceded to the Budapest Convention.
• The treaty will enter into force three months after Canada notifies the Secretariat of the Council of Europe of Canada’s ratification."

Retrieved from:

http://www.international.gc.ca/media/aff/news-communiques/2015/07/08b.aspx?lang=eng

Recommended: http://www.coe.int/en/web/cybercrime