[PRIVY COUNCIL.]
ATTORNEY-GENERAL FOR BRITISH COLUMBIA APPELLANT; AND ATTORNEY-GENERAL FOR CANADA AND OTHERS RESPONDENTS.
ON APPEAL FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF CANADA.
1937 Jan. 28.
LORD ATKIN, LORD THANKERTON, LORD MACMILLAN, LORD WRIGHT M.R., and SIR SIDNEY ROWLATT.
CanadaCriminal CodeAdditional sectionSpecified trade practices made indictable offencesConstitutional validityCriterion of “wrongness”Prohibition of act in public interestCriminal law not used as pretext to invade Provincial legislative fieldNot legislation in pith and substance only interfering with civil rights in the ProvinceSection valid Dominion legislation British North America Act, 1867 (30 & 31 Vict. c. 3), s. 91 (2) (27) An Act to Amend the Criminal Code, 1935, St. Can. (25 & 26 Geo. 5, c. 56), s. 9.

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