Does a provincial superior court have the authority to rule on the constitutional validity of federal legislation?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from Torres-Samuels v. The Minister of Citizenship And Immigration, 1998 CanLII 6564 (BC SC):

It is settled that a provincial superior court has the authority to rule on the constitutional validity of federal legislation (Jabour v. Law Society of B.C., 1982 CanLII 29 (SCC), [1982] 2 S.C.R. 307).

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