CMN 2170 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: State Agency For National Security, Radiotelephone, New Economics Foundation
17 Dec 2017
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In the matter of a reference as to the jurisdiction of parliament to regulate and control radio communication. Tags(s) constitutional law radio communication dominions and provincial jurisdiction b. n. a. 2: seeks generally the de nition of dominion authority to regulate and control radio communication . 92 relied on by counsel for the provinces were no. In the existing state of radio science and in the light of the knowledge and use of the art as actually understood and worked, radio communication is subject to the legislative jurisdiction of the dominion parliament [federal jurisdiction] Reason(s) (1) it is not a local matter/question of property [in reference to sec. Act] (2) hertzian waves are continental/transcend country boundaries (provinces cannot enter negations with a foreign power) [in reference to sec. Act: the question is not directed towards property right but to radio communication an effect which is not local, but interprovincial, undoubtedly relates to the peace, order and good government of canada.
