Global Affairs Canada
Canada Sanctions List and Autonomous Sanctions
The Canada sanctions list is the Consolidated Canadian Autonomous Sanctions List kept by Global Affairs Canada. It names people and entities listed in regulations under the Special Economic Measures Act and the Justice for Victims of Corrupt Foreign Officials Act. Dealings with them are restricted.
Current version in OfacScanner
LoadedEntries in the current version
5,707
- Published
- Oct 1, 2026
- Checked
- Oct 11, 2026, 15:47 UTC
- Programs
- 19
- Screened on
- Growth, Scale and Enterprise
What is the Canada sanctions list
Canada imposes sanctions in two main ways. It puts United Nations Security Council sanctions into Canadian law under the United Nations Act, and it adopts its own autonomous sanctions under Canadian statutes. The Consolidated Canadian Autonomous Sanctions List covers the second group.
Global Affairs Canada maintains the list. It brings together the individuals and entities named in regulations made under the Special Economic Measures Act and under the Justice for Victims of Corrupt Foreign Officials Act, which is also known as the Sergei Magnitsky Law. The regulations themselves are the legal source. The consolidated list exists to make screening easier.
Because UN listings are handled under a different law, they are not the focus of this list. A complete Canadian screening program usually covers this list together with the UN sanctions list.
The two laws behind Canadian autonomous sanctions
Each law answers a different situation. Both let the government list people and entities and restrict dealings with them, usually through a ban on dealing in their property and on providing them with financial or related services.
Special Economic Measures Act
SEMA allows Canada to impose sanctions in response to a grave breach of international peace and security, gross and systematic human rights violations, or significant acts of corruption. Regulations under SEMA usually target a country situation and name people and entities connected to it. Many of these regulations also include trade measures that go beyond the list.
Justice for Victims of Corrupt Foreign Officials Act
This law, the Sergei Magnitsky Law, targets foreign nationals responsible for, or complicit in, gross violations of human rights or significant acts of corruption. Its regulations name individuals and restrict dealings with their property in Canada and by Canadians abroad.
Current Canada sanctions list data in OfacScanner
Live figures from the Canadian list version we screen against, with recent changes and the largest regulations.
Official source
- Issuing authority
- Global Affairs Canada
- List
- Consolidated Canadian Autonomous Sanctions List
- Data file we read
- www.international.gc.ca/world-monde/assets/office_docs/international_relations-relations_i... (XML)
- Update checks
- Checked against the official source every 30 minutes
- Last check
- Oct 11, 2026, 16:27 UTC
Entries by type
| Type | Active entries |
|---|---|
| Individuals | 3,526 |
| Organizations | 1,450 |
| Vessels | 731 |
Recent versions and changes
| Published | Checked | Entries | Added | Removed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 2026 | Oct 11, 2026, 15:47 UTC | 5,707 | First version stored, baseline for later changes | |
A new row appears each time the official file changes. Monitoring re-screens your saved records against every added entry.
Largest sanctions programs on this list
| Program | Active entries |
|---|---|
| SEMA-RUSSIA | 3,332 |
| SEMA-UKRAINE | 553 |
| SEMA-IRAN | 495 |
| SEMA-BELARUS | 320 |
| SEMA-SYRIA | 261 |
| SEMA-MYANMAR (BURMA) | 241 |
| SEMA-VENEZUELA | 123 |
| SEMA-ZIMBABWE | 81 |
| SEMA-JUSTICE FOR VICTIMS OF CORRUPT FOREIGN OFFICIALS REGULA | 80 |
| SEMA-MOLDOVA | 41 |
| SEMA-HAMAS TERRORIST ATTACKS | 39 |
| SEMA-NICARAGUA | 35 |
One entry can sit under several programs, so the program counts add up to more than the entry total.
Canadian sanctions sources and where to screen them
A simple map of the main Canadian sources and how OfacScanner covers them.
| Source | Legal basis | Covered in OfacScanner |
|---|---|---|
| Consolidated Canadian Autonomous Sanctions List | Special Economic Measures Act and the Sergei Magnitsky Law | Canada list, Growth and higher |
| UN Security Council listings | United Nations Act and its regulations | UN list, Growth and higher |
| U.S. and allied lists | Laws of each country | OFAC lists on every plan, EU, UK and Australia on Growth and higher |
Canada also keeps other lists, such as listed terrorist entities under the Criminal Code, which are outside this page.
What a Canadian list entry contains
Entries name the person or entity, the regulation that lists them and the schedule item. For individuals, the entry often adds a date of birth and sometimes a title or role. For entities, aliases and names in other languages are common.
Canadian entries tend to be shorter than OFAC entries, with fewer identity numbers. That makes good name matching even more important. A careful search uses every alias, removes legal suffixes, compares transliterated forms and gives weight to the date of birth or country when you add them.
How OfacScanner screens the Canada list
Fresh data around the clock
The official file is checked every 30 minutes and each change becomes a new version.
Fuzzy and phonetic matching
Spelling distance, word order and sound are blended into one 0 to 100 score.
Screening by API
On Scale and higher, the sanctions screening API checks names against the Canada list in real time.
Proof for every result
Each check stores the list version, time, user and score breakdown, with a PDF certificate.
Canada sanctions list questions
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