Observed from the perspective of citation of foreign judgments, the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) is often considered one of the world’s most cosmopolitan and proactive actors in transnational judicial conversation. However, there are also other forms of non-domestic legal sources that Courts engage with, such as: foreign law, international case law, and international treaties. Hence, the ‘globalist’ or ‘localist’ approach of a court cannot be assessed without looking from this broader perspective. By examining all the 1223 judgments issued by the SCC over 17 years (2000–2016), this study offers a comprehensive picture of citations of all forms of non-domestic legal sources. Remarkably, the empirical data show that the Court has extensively engaged with all forms of non-domestic legal sources, and cites such foreign authorities in approximately 50 different fields of law. This article is distinct in that it combines two different perspectives when analyzing the data: the SCC as an institution and its individual judges. From an institutional perspective, such all-inclusive records demonstrate that foreign citation is decreasing, a trend which may jeopardize the high prestige of the SCC in the global arena. Similar trend is noticeable when the data is analyzed also from an individual-judge perspective. In providing an empirical picture of individual judges’ engagement with non-domestic legal sources, this Article attempts to categorize the 21 justices that have served in the SCC during the 17-year timeframe into three groups: ‘high globalist judges’, ‘moderate globalist judges’, and ‘localist judges’. The article ends with few remarks regarding whether this is a judicial slowbalization of the Court.

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加拿大最高法院在判决中使用非国内法律渊源：这是法院的司法缓慢吗？

从引用外国判决的角度来看，加拿大最高法院（SCC）在跨国司法对话中通常被认为是世界上最国际化，最积极的行为者之一。但是，法院还有其他形式的非国内法律来源，例如：外国法律，国际判例法和国际条约。因此，如果不从这个更广泛的角度来看，法院的“全球主义”或“地方主义”方法就无法评估。通过研究SCC在过去17年（2000-2016年）中发布的所有1223项判决，该研究提供了对所有形式的非国内法律资料来源的全面概述。值得注意的是，经验数据表明，法院已广泛接触各种形式的非国内法律资源，并在大约50个不同的法律领域引用了这些外国当局。本文的独特之处在于，在分析数据时，它结合了两种不同的观点：作为机构的SCC及其个人法官。从机构的角度来看，这些全方面的记录表明，外国引文正在减少，这种趋势可能会损害SCC在全球舞台上的较高声望。从个人判断的角度分析数据时，类似的趋势也很明显。在提供个人法官参与非国内法律渊源的经验图时，本文试图将在17年的时间里在SCC任职的21名法官分为三类：“高级全球主义者”，“中度全球化者”法官”和“地方法官”。