Is an interprovincial transportation undertaking subject to federal jurisdiction?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Stone v. Greyhound Canada Transportation Corp., 2004 BCHRT 294 (CanLII):
Further, it is a general principle that a transportation undertaking is subject to the regulation of only one level of government. Thus, once an undertaking is classified as interprovincial, all of its services are subject to federal jurisdiction: A.G. Ontario v. Winner 1954 CanLII 289 (UK JCPC), [1954] A.C. 541.
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