The Natural Products Marketing Act was passed by the government of R. B. Bennett in 1934. It was the subject of an appeal to the

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, which delivered its judgment on 28 January 1937,bailii.org: "The Attorney General of British Columbia (Appeal No. 103 of 1936) v The Attorney General of Canada and others (Canada) 1937 UKPC 9 (28 January 1937)"
/ref> along with the repudiations of three labour statutes and the

Employment and Social Insurance Act The ''Employment and Social Insurance Act'' () was a statute enacted by the Parliament of Canada in 1935 during the final months of the government of R.B. Bennett. The Act was intended to introduce a Employment Insurance#Canada, nationwide employ ...

, all passed by Bennett. The contention of the province of

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was that the legislation impinged on its own powers, and was thus ''

ultra vires ('beyond the powers') is a Latin phrase used in law to describe an act that requires legal authority but is done without it. Its opposite, an act done under proper authority, is ('within the powers'). Acts that are may equivalently be termed ...

''. The

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had unanimously answered the question in the affirmative.Supreme Court Judgments: "Dominion Stores Ltd. v. R."
1979-12-13. Report:

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1 SCR 844 The judges in London agreed, and called for unspecified "co-operation" in place of contentious legislation; this co-operation has come to be functional since then in the periodic federal-provincial meetings.

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*{{cite book , title=Canada's First Century , url=https://archive.org/details/canadasfirstcent0000crei , url-access=registration , first=Donald , last=Creighton , publisher=Macmillan of Canada , year=1970 1937 in Canadian case law Supreme Court of Canada cases Canadian constitutional case law R.B. Bennett

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