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The Godfrey–Milliken Bill, also called the American Liberty and Democratic Solidarity (Loyalty) Act, was a private member's bill introduced in the Canadian parliament by Liberal MPs Peter Milliken and John Godfrey. The bill was intended as a parody of the American Helms–Burton Act. The bill received widespread attention in Canada and also some publicity in the United States, including a feature on 60 Minutes.

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  • Die Godfrey-Milliken Bill, offiziell: Bill C-339: The American Liberty and Democratic Solidarity (Loyalty) Act, ist ein von einem sogenannten Hinterbänkler in das kanadische Parlament eingebrachter Gesetzentwurf (engl.: Private Member's Bill, frz.: Projet de loi émanant d'un député) der Abgeordneten Peter Milliken und . Er sollte als Parodie und gleichzeitig als Angriff auf den US-amerikanischen Helms-Burton Act (Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity (LIBERTAD) Act) dienen. Der Helms-Burton Act installierte harte Strafen für alle Unternehmen oder Personen, die von von der kubanischen Revolution enteignetem US-amerikanischen Eigentum profitieren. Dieses Gesetz schloss auch ausländische Staaten und Unternehmen mit ein. Da praktisch alles in Kuba in irgendeiner Weise „enteignetes Eigentum“ war, betraf dieses demzufolge auch kanadische Unternehmen. Der Gesetzentwurf von 1996 ruft die Hinterbliebenen der Loyalisten auf, von der damaligen amerikanischen Regierung enteignetes Land und Eigentum zurückzufordern. Er hätte außerdem das Recht verbrieft, Vorstände von Unternehmen oder deren Macht ausübende Aktieninhaber, ebenso wie deren Ehefrauen und Kindern aus Kanada auszuweisen bzw. ihnen die Einreise zu verweigern, sofern sie enteignetes Eigentum ehemaliger Loyalisten verwalten. Ungefähr drei Millionen Kanadier dürften Abkömmlinge der Loyalisten des Vereinigten Königreichs sein, wie unter anderen auch Milliken und Godfrey. Der Wert des während der Amerikanischen Revolution enteigneten Eigentums dürfte sich auf einige Milliarden US-Dollar belaufen. Die Bill erlangte in ganz Kanada große Aufmerksamkeit, wurde jedoch auch in den USA nicht komplett ignoriert. Die Godfrey-Milliken Bill wurde niemals Gesetz, jedoch passierte ein seriöserer Entwurf namens An Act to amend the Foreign Extraterritorial Measures Act den kanadischen Kongress. Es verwies zwar nicht auf vergangene Eigentumsansprüche der Loyalisten, jedoch versuchte es den Helms-Burton-Act innerhalb Kanadas zu neutralisieren. (de)
  • The Godfrey–Milliken Bill, also called the American Liberty and Democratic Solidarity (Loyalty) Act, was a private member's bill introduced in the Canadian parliament by Liberal MPs Peter Milliken and John Godfrey. The bill was intended as a parody of the American Helms–Burton Act. The Helms–Burton Act set up stringent punishments on any business or person that profited from property of American businesses and people that had been seized in the Cuban Revolution. The bill included a policy of punishing foreign nations and companies who had profited from this seized property (which in practice means trading with Cuba at all, since everything in Cuba is in some way connected to such property). This included a number of Canadian companies. The 1996 bill responded by calling for descendants of United Empire Loyalists who fled the American Revolution to be able to reclaim land and property that was confiscated by the American government. The bill would have also allowed the Canadian government to exclude corporate officers, or controlling shareholders of companies that possess property formerly owned by Loyalists, as well as the spouse and minor child of such persons from entering Canada. In total some three million Canadians are descendants of United Empire Loyalists, including Milliken and Godfrey. The current value of the land and property seized during the American Revolution is many billions of dollars. The bill received widespread attention in Canada and also some publicity in the United States, including a feature on 60 Minutes. The Godfrey–Milliken Bill did not become law. Milliken later supported Bill C-54 to amend the Foreign Extraterritorial Measures Act which effectively neutralized any attempt to enforce the Helms–Burton Act on Canadians or Canadian companies. The amendments blocked access to Canadian records for the prosecution of any case under the Helms–Burton Act, allowed the Attorney General to block Canadian courts from enforcing judgments emanating from US jurisdictions against Canadian defendants, permitted Canadian defendants to counter-sue in Canadian courts, and imposed a $1.5 million fine (equivalent to $2.59 million in 2021) to any Canadian entity that aided any prosecution under Helms–Burton. (en)
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  • An Act to permit descendants of United Empire Loyalists who fled the land that later became the United States of America after the 1776 American Revolution to establish a claim to the property they or their ancestors owned in the United States that was confiscated without compensation, and claim compensation for it in the Canadian courts, and to exclude from Canada any foreign person trafficking in such property (en)
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  • American Liberty and Democratic Solidarity Act (en)
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  • Die Godfrey-Milliken Bill, offiziell: Bill C-339: The American Liberty and Democratic Solidarity (Loyalty) Act, ist ein von einem sogenannten Hinterbänkler in das kanadische Parlament eingebrachter Gesetzentwurf (engl.: Private Member's Bill, frz.: Projet de loi émanant d'un député) der Abgeordneten Peter Milliken und . Er sollte als Parodie und gleichzeitig als Angriff auf den US-amerikanischen Helms-Burton Act (Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity (LIBERTAD) Act) dienen. Die Bill erlangte in ganz Kanada große Aufmerksamkeit, wurde jedoch auch in den USA nicht komplett ignoriert. (de)
  • The Godfrey–Milliken Bill, also called the American Liberty and Democratic Solidarity (Loyalty) Act, was a private member's bill introduced in the Canadian parliament by Liberal MPs Peter Milliken and John Godfrey. The bill was intended as a parody of the American Helms–Burton Act. The bill received widespread attention in Canada and also some publicity in the United States, including a feature on 60 Minutes. (en)
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  • Godfrey–Milliken Bill (en)
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