diff --git a/ruby-saml.gemspec b/ruby-saml.gemspec
index 142a47e7b..a907df61f 100644
--- a/ruby-saml.gemspec
+++ b/ruby-saml.gemspec
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |s|
   s.summary = %q{SAML Ruby Tookit}
   s.test_files = `git ls-files test/*`.split("\n")
 
-  s.add_runtime_dependency("canonix", ["0.1.1"])
   s.add_runtime_dependency("uuid", ["~> 2.3"])
   s.add_runtime_dependency("nokogiri", ["~> 1.5.0"])
 end