The Government of Canada department responsible for enforcing the Act is the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
[4] In 2014 an Iranian plaintiff tried to have the Supreme Court of British Columbia overturn the Special Economic Measures (Iran) Regulations.
[7] Upper-level management of the Iranian nuclear programme have repeatedly tried to infiltrate Canada and the SEMA has been used to stop them.
[9] On 1 February 2022 rumours of a Russian invasion were thick and a helpful list of Canadian sanctions tools was provided by consultant attorneys.
There were then three pieces of secondary legislation that collectively formed the "Sanctions Regime",[10] under the SEMA: In 2022, Roman Abramovich had some of his assets seized under this Act.