{"id":38425,"date":"2017-05-06T04:00:36","date_gmt":"2017-05-06T08:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=38425"},"modified":"2017-05-05T10:43:57","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T14:43:57","slug":"supreme-court-to-review-prohibition-era-inter-provincial-alcohol-regulations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/05\/06\/supreme-court-to-review-prohibition-era-inter-provincial-alcohol-regulations\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court to review Prohibition-era inter-provincial alcohol regulations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/new-brunswick\/supreme-court-gerard-comeau-1.4097320\" target=\"_blank\">Alan White<\/a> reports that the Supreme Court of Canada has agreed to hearing an appeal of a New Brunswick court decision:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Supreme Court of Canada has agreed to hear an appeal of a New Brunswick court ruling that declared it unconstitutional to limit the amount of alcohol someone can bring into the province.<\/p>\n<p>At the centre of the case is Gerard Comeau of Tracadie, N.B. He was acquitted by a provincial court judge of exceeding provincial importation limits on beer and liquor that can be brought into New Brunswick.<\/p>\n<p>Comeau was charged in 2012. RCMP had stopped him after he entered New Brunswick from Quebec with 14 cases of beer and three bottles of liquor. New Brunswick&#8217;s Liquor Control Act sets a personal importation limit of 12 pints of beer or one bottle of alcohol or wine.<\/p>\n<p>Provincial court Judge Ronald LeBlanc ruled the liquor restriction was unconstitutional because Sec. 121 of the 1867 Constitution states products from any province &#8220;shall \u2026 be admitted free into each of the other provinces.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lawyer Ian Blue, who acted as part of Comeau&#8217;s defence team on behalf of the Canadian Constitution Foundation, says the case stands to have major implications.<\/p>\n<p>Blue said the federal and provincial governments are currently discussing trade matters pertaining to NAFTA, milk marketing boards, softwood lumber tariffs, but &#8220;they&#8217;re not looking at this Comeau case.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This Comeau case, with the Supreme Court decision, could have more profound effects on interprovincial trade barriers than President Trump could,&#8221; said Blue. &#8220;That&#8217;s how important this case is.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alan White reports that the Supreme Court of Canada has agreed to hearing an appeal of a New Brunswick court decision: The Supreme Court of Canada has agreed to hear an appeal of a New Brunswick court ruling that declared it unconstitutional to limit the amount of alcohol someone can bring into the province. 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