Since the abolition of appeals to the British Privy Council in criminal and civil matters, respectively in 1933 and 1949, there is no longer an international body (other than the International Criminal Court) with authority over the protection of individual rights in Canada. Although Canada has one of the most effective and robust justice systems in the world, it is healthy to question how to strengthen its ties with the international organizations of the Americas struggling to defend human rights. This is all the more true, given the policies adopted under the leadership of President Donald Trump, which not only violate the basic human rights obligations of the United States, but also do enormous harm to vulnerable communities elsewhere. In this context, it is pertinent to ask whether Canada’s potential accession to the American Convention on Human Rights, which authorizes the Inter-American Court of Human Rights to receive petitions for human rights violations, would be beneficial to Canadian litigants. This text, with a critical eye, aims to analyze the possible impacts of Canada’s accession to the American Convention and to present in evidence a list of judgments and articles representative of the current situation before the Inter-American Court, in order to add to the dialogue on the subject.