Because Canada has signed it, we're bound to follow it. That's our job, to make sure that we're following it and that we are following it as it is.... I was at a federal disability conference last year where one of the civil servants asked that question to a panel of federal lawyers, and the federal lawyers' response was, “We're bound to it now; we signed it so now it's just making sure it's enforced.”
On February 28th, 2013. See this statement in context.