How have courts interpreted the meaning of the purpose and effect of the legislation?
Manitoba, Canada
The following excerpt is from R. v. Bryan, 1999 CanLII 4805 (MB CA):
7 In Canadian Egg Marketing Agency v. Richardson, [1998] S.C.J. No. 78, para. 97, Iacobucci J. and Bastarache J., writing for the majority, emphasized that: . . . both purpose and effect must be examined in order to determine constitutionality. It is possible that those effects might, over time, acquire such significance as to become the dominant feature of the legislation, thereby displacing the original purpose.
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