Does a provincial legislature have jurisdiction to prohibit the manufacture and importation of intoxicating liquors into the province?
Saskatchewan, Canada
The following excerpt is from Hudson's Bay Company v. Heffernan, 1917 CanLII 110 (SK CA):
In the Manitoba liquor case, supra, it was further pointed out that in the Atty.-Gen. of Ontario v. Atty.-Gen. of Canada, supra, it was held: that there might be circumstances in which a provincial legislature might have jurisdiction to prohibit the manufacture within the province of intoxicating liquors and the importation of such liquors into the province: ([1902] A.C. p. 79).
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