Unless the SCC strikes down the applicable Criminal Code provision in Carter, the Bill is vulnerable to the constitutional
law doctrine of federal paramountcy.
Not exact matches
It was only if those requirements were relaxed as a matter
of federal law that it would become necessary to consider if those requirements could continue to apply ex proprio motu, or if they were inoperative or inapplicable by virtue
of the
doctrines of paramountcy and / or interjurisdictional immunity.
That particular
law of Canada sets out
federal powers that, in some circumstances defined in the case
law, are given paramount or wholly exclusive status under the
doctrines of paramountcy and interjurisdictional immunity.
In Lafarge (British Columbia (Attorney General) v. Lafarge Canada Inc., [2007] 2 SCR 86, 2007 SCC 23) and Mangat (
Law Society
of British Columbia v. Mangat, [2001] 3 SCR 113, 2001 SCC 67) the court held that the applicability
of certain provincial
laws to regimes governed by
federal legislation constituted a conflict between intended purpose
of the relevant
federal legislation and the provincial legislation that triggered the application
of the
doctrine of paramountcy.