North American Free Trade Agreement

Annex II: Reservations for Future Measures (Chapters 11, 12, and 14)

Schedule of Canada


Sector: Aboriginal Affairs
Sub-Sector:
Industry Classification:
Type of Reservation: National Treatment (Articles 1102, 1202)
Most-Favored-Nation Treatment (Articles 1103, 1203)
Local Presence (Article 1205)
Performance Requirements (Article 1106)
Senior Management and Boards of Directors (Article 1107)
Description: Cross-Border Services and Investment

Canada reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure denying investors of another Party and their investments, or service providers of another Party, any rights or preferences provided to aboriginal peoples.

Existing Measures: Constitution Act, 1982, being Schedule B of the Canada Act 1982 (U.K.), 1982, c. 11

Sector: All Sectors
Sub-Sector:
Industry Classification:
Type of Reservation: National Treatment (Article 1102)
Description: Investment

Canada reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure relating to residency requirements for the ownership by investors of another Party, or their investments, of ocean-front land.

Existing Measures:

Sector: Communications
Sub-Sector: Telecommunications Transport Networks and Services, Radiocommunications and Submarine Cables
Industry Classification: CPC 752
CPC 7543
CPC 7549
Telecommunications Services
Connection Services
Other Telecommunications Services Not Elsewhere Classified (limited to telecommunications transport networks and services)
Type of Reservation: National Treatment (Article 1102)
Most-Favored-Nation Treatment (Article 1103)
Senior Management and Boards of Directors (Article 1107)
Description: Investment

Canada reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure relating to investment in telecommunications transport networks and telecommunications transport services, radiocommunications and submarine cables, including ownership restrictions and measures concerning corporate officers and directors and place of incorporation.

This reservation does not apply to providers of enhanced or valueadded services whose underlying telecommunications transmission facilities are leased from providers of public telecommunications transport networks.

Existing Measures: Bell Canada Act, S.C. 1987, c. 19

British Columbia Telephone Company Special Act, S.C. 1916, c. 66

Teleglobe Canada Reorganization and Divestiture Act, S.C. 1987, c. 12

Telesat Canada Reorganization and Divestiture Act, S.C 1991, c. 52

Radiocommunication Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. R-2

Telegraphs Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. T-5

Telecommunications Policy Framework, 1987


Sector: Communications
Sub-Sector: Telecommunications Transport Networks and Services, Radiocommunications and Submarine Cables
Industry Classification: CPC 752

CPC 7543
CPC 7549

Telecommunications Services (not including enhanced or value-added services)
Connection Services
Other Telecommunications Services Not Elsewhere Classified
(limited to telecommunications transport networks and services)
Type of Reservation: National Treatment (Article 1202)
Most-Favored-Nation Treatment (Article 1203)
Local Presence (Article 1205)
Description: Cross-Border Services

Canada reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure relating to radiocommunications, submarine cables and the provision of telecommunications transport networks and telecommunications transport services. These measures may apply to such matters as market entry, spectrum assignment, tariffs, intercarrier agreements, terms and conditions of service, interconnection between networks and services, and routing requirements that impede the provision on a cross-border basis of telecommunications transport networks and telecommunications transport services, radiocommunications and submarine cables.

Telecommunications transport services typically involve the realtime transmission of customersupplied information between two or more points without any endtoend change in the form or content of the customer's information, whether or not such services are offered to the public generally. These services include voice and data services by wire, radiocommunications or any other electromagnetic means of transmission.

This reservation does not apply to measures relating to the crossborder provision of enhanced or valueadded services.

Existing Measures: Bell Canada Act, S.C. 1987, c. 19

British Columbia Telephone Company Special Act, S.C. 1916, c. 66

Railway Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. R-3

Radiocommunication Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. R-2

Telegraphs Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. T-5

Telecommunications Policy Framework, 1987

Telecommunications Decisions, C.R.T.C., including (85-19), (90-3), (91-10), (91-21), (92-11) and (92-12)


Sector: Government Finance
Sub-Sector: Securities
Industry Classification: SIC 8152 Finance and Economic Administration
Type of Reservation: National Treatment (Article 1102)
Description: Investment

Canada reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure relating to the acquisition, sale or other disposition by nationals of another Party of bonds, treasury bills or other kinds of debt securities issued by the Government of Canada, a province or local government.

Existing Measures: Financial Administration Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. F-11

Sector: Minority Affairs
Sub-Sector:
Industry Classification:
Type of Reservation: National Treatment (Articles 1102, 1202)
Local Presence (Article 1205)
Performance Requirements (Article 1106)
Senior Management and Boards of Directors (Article 1107)
Description: Cross-Border Services and Investment

Canada reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure according rights or preferences to socially or economically disadvantaged minorities.

Existing Measures:

Sector: Social Services
Sub-Sector:
Industry Classification:
Type of Reservation: National Treatment (Articles 1102, 1202)
Most-Favored-Nation Treatment (Article 1203)
Local Presence (Article 1205)
Senior Management and Boards of Directors (Article 1107)
Description: Cross-Border Services and Investment

Canada reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure with respect to the provision of public law enforcement and correctional services, and the following services to the extent that they are social services established or maintained for a public purpose: income security or insurance, social security or insurance, social welfare, public education, public training, health, and child care.

Existing Measures:

Sector: Transportation
Sub-Sector: Air Transportation
Industry Classification: SIC 4513 Non-Scheduled Air Transport, Specialty, Industry
Type of Reservation: National Treatment (Article 1102)
Most-Favored-Nation Treatment (Article 1103)
Senior Management and Boards of Directors (Article 1107)
Description: Investment

Canada reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure that restricts the
acquisition or establishment of an investment in Canada for the provision of
specialty air services to a Canadian national or a corporation incorporated
and having its principal place of business in Canada, its chief executive
officer and not fewer than twothirds of its directors as Canadian nationals,
and not less than 75 percent of its voting interest owned and controlled
by persons otherwise meeting these requirements.

Existing Measures: Aeronautics Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. A-2

Air Regulations, C.R.C. 1978, c. 2

Aircraft Marking and Registration Regulations, SOR/90-591


Sector: Transportation
Sub-Sector: Water Transportation
Industry Classification: SIC 4129
SIC 4541
SIC 4542
SIC 4543
SIC 4549
SIC 4552

SIC 4553
SIC 4554
SIC 4559

Other Heavy Construction (limited to dredging)
Freight and Passenger Water Transport Industry
Ferry Industry
Marine Towing Industry
Other Water Transport Industries
Harbour and Port Operation Industries (limited to berthing,
bunkering and other vessel operations in a port)
Marine Salvage Industry
Piloting Service, Water Transport Industry
Other Service Industries Incidental to Water Transport
(not including landside aspects of port activities)
Type of Reservation: National Treatment (Articles 1102, 1202)
Most-Favored-Nation Treatment (Articles 1103, 1203)
Local Presence (Article 1205)
Performance Requirements (Article 1106)
Senior Management and Boards of Directors (Article 1107)
Description: Cross-Border Services and Investment

Canada reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure relating to investment in or provision of maritime cabotage services, including:

    (a) the transportation of goods or passengers by vessel between points in the territory of Canada and in its Exclusive Economic Zone;

    (b) with respect to waters above the continental shelf, the transportation of goods or passengers in relation to the exploration, exploitation or transportation of the mineral or non living natural resources of the continental shelf; and

    (c) the engaging by vessel in any maritime activity of a commercial nature in the territory of Canada and in its Exclusive Economic Zone and, with respect to waters above the continental shelf, in such other maritime activities of a commercial nature in relation to the exploration, exploitation or transportation of mineral or nonliving natural resources of the continental shelf.

This reservation relates to, among other things, local presence requirements for service providers entitled to participate in these activities, criteria for the issuance of a temporary cabotage license to foreign vessels and limits on the number of cabotage licenses issued to foreign vessels.

Existing Measures: Coasting Trade Act, S.C. 1992, c. 31

Canada Shipping Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. S-9

Customs Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. 1 (2nd Supp.)

Customs and Excise Offshore Application Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. C-53


Sector: Transportation
Sub-Sector: Water Transportation
Industry Classification: SIC 4541
SIC 4542
SIC 4543
SIC 4549
SIC 4551
SIC 4552
SIC 4553
SIC 4554
SIC 4559
Freight and Passenger Water Transport Industry
Ferry Industry
Marine Towing Industry
Other Water Transport Industries
Marine Cargo Handling Industry
Harbour and Port Operation Industries
Marine Salvage Industry
Piloting Service, Water Transport Industry
Other Service Industries Incidental to Water Transport
Type of Reservation: National Treatment (Articles 1102, 1202)
Most-Favored-Nation Treatment (Articles 1103, 1203)
Local Presence (Article 1205)
Performance Requirements (Article 1106)
Senior Management and Boards of Directors (Article 1107)
Description: Cross-Border Services and Investment

Canada reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure denying service providers or investors of the United States, or their investments, the benefits accorded service providers or investors of Mexico or any other country, or their investments, in sectors or activities equivalent to those subject to Schedule of the United States, Annex II, page II-U-9.

Existing Measures:

Sector: Transportation
Sub-Sector: Water Transportation
Industry Classification: SIC 4541
SIC 4542
SIC 4543
SIC 4549
SIC 4551
SIC 4552
SIC 4553
SIC 4554
SIC 4559
Freight and Passenger Water Transport Industry
Ferry Industry
Marine Towing Industry
Other Water Transport Industries
Marine Cargo Handling Industry
Harbour and Port Operation Industries
Marine Salvage Industry
Piloting Service, Water Transport Industry
Other Service Industries Incidental to Water Transport
Type of Reservation: Most-Favored-Nation Treatment (Article 1203)
Description: Cross-Border Services

Canada reserves the right to adopt or maintain any measure relating to the implementation of agreements, arrangements and other formal or informal undertakings with other countries with respect to maritime activities in waters of mutual interest in such areas as pollution control (including double hull requirements for oil tankers), safe navigation, barge inspection standards, water quality, pilotage, salvage, drug abuse control and maritime communications.

Existing Measures: United States Wreckers Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. U-3

Various agreements and arrangements, including:

    (a) Memorandum of Arrangements on Great Lakes Pilotage;

    (b) Canada-United States Joint Marine Pollution Contingency Plan;

    (c) Agreement with the United States on Loran "C" Service on the East and West Coasts; and

    (d) Denmark-Canada Joint Marine Pollution Circumpolar Agreement.

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