CANADA BAN CASES
July 1st, 2005
BY MONICA DOBIETWO bar owners in the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan will fight recently enacted smoking laws in court, arguing the bans break the country's Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Robert Jenkinson, from Manitoba, on trial for letting patrons smoke in his bar, will argue the provincial smoking ban violates the charter's rules on fairness because it does not apply to local native reserves. Under special laws protecting native Canadian rights, the Manitoban government cannot enforce the law on reserves, some of which have recently opened ...
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