The Act does not merely fulfill Canada’s international obligations. It also serves pressing and substantial domestic objectives. It protects the public against crime through its investigation, it brings fugitives to justice for the proper determination of their criminal liability, and it ensures - through international cooperation – “that national boundaries do not serve as a means of escape from the rule of law”: M.M., at para. 15, citing Sriskandarajah v. United States of America, 2012 SCC 70, [2012] 3 S.C.R. 609, at para. 10.
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