POLSCI 3NN6 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Oldman River, Canadian Wheat Board

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLSCI 3NN6
• Professor: Greg Flynn

Document Summary

There are two types of trade: international and interprovincial trade, Ontario farm products marketing reference [1957] scr 198. An incidental interference in provincial trade is insufficient to and trade affecting the dominion as a whole strike it down. At this time, if you grew wheat in a certain region (somewhere. Alberta and manitoba) you had to sell it to the canada wheat. This happened to allow canada to act as an monopoly in international wheat. Klassen wanted to sell his wheat to the canada wheat board, but rather privately. He was charged under the canada wheat act. He challenged arguing that though the transaction is international, it captured in province. The court said no, because the predominant focus is federal. A federal prohibition and transportation of oil west of the. The fact that it might capture a single transaction in a province is insufficient to say it is provincial jurisdiction, thus remains federal.