Attorney-General For British Columbia v Attorney-General For Canada

Subject Matter

CRIME — Canada — Criminal Code — Additional section — Specified trade practices made indictable offences — Constitutional validity — Criterion of “wrongness” — Prohibition of act in public interest — Criminal law not used as pretext to invade Provincial legislative field — Not legislation in pith and substance only interfering with civil rights in the Province — Section 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.