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Police Powers, Trespass And Expressive Rights Under The Canadian Constitution, W. Wesley Pue
Police Powers, Trespass And Expressive Rights Under The Canadian Constitution, W. Wesley Pue
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This paper traces the history of the ancillary police powers doctrine in Canadian police law/ constitutional law over the past 40 years. It identifies a doctrine creep wherein a heading of police power which had modest origins has expanded massively. The expansion is spatial and conceptual and reached its reductio ad absurdum when the entire central area of Quebec city was zoned into no-go areas by police acting without legislative authority, claiming the right to erect barricades in public streets, to issue passes (or not) as necessarily ancillary to police powers. The paper includes the only English translation of the …