The United Nations Act essentially allows the government to implement non-military measures under article 41 of the charter of the United Nations. It's a vehicle with which we can comply with our international legal obligations under the UN charter to implement binding decisions of the Security Council.
The meat of what actually happens once the Security Council makes a resolution is contained in the regulations, because the act doesn't specify the types of measures that the Security Council can impose. It is very general on that point. So when we implement a decision, there's no discretion in that manner in what we implement. For example, the most recent Libya regulations were partially taken under the United Nations Act, and we implemented expressly what the Security Council obliged us to do. The discretion lies in how we implement, and for Canada that vehicle is the United Nations Act.
Some aspects of the Security Council resolutions are implemented automatically by operation of law. For example, travel bans are implemented through a mechanism that's already contained in the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act. But the United Nations Act, in and of itself, does not deal with any of the protection measures, asset seizures, restraints, or anything like that. That all comes into play when we pass regulations under the act.