CANADA POWER WALLS CASE
March 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALL and MONICA DOBIETHE SUPREME Court of Canada has confirmed the right of Canadian provinces to introduce stricter anti-smoking retail rules than within the country's federal Tobacco Act. This came in an explanation of a January judgement rejecting Rothmans Benson & Hedges' claim of unconstitutionality about a Saskatchewan ban on 'power wall' tobacco product displays. The court said that by not explicitly banning power walls, criminal laws such as the Tobacco Act, "do not ordinarily create freestanding rights that limit the ability of the ...
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