POWER WALLS
January 1st, 2005
BY MONICA DOBIETHE SUPREME Court of Canada has unanimously upheld a Saskatchewan law than bans displaying cigarettes in any store that permits minors on the premises. Rothmans Benson & Hedges, the company that challenged the validity of this provincial legislation, argued that because the federal law allows retail 'power wall' displays of tobacco, provincial legislation should be ruled invalid. The Saskatchewan government said that there was no "operational conflict" between the laws and that both laws from both levels of government aimed to prevent young ...
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