Fort Frances Pulp And Paper V. Manitoba Free Press
Fort Frances Pulp and Paper Co. v. Manitoba Free Press Co. is a famous Canadian Constitutional decision of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council on the "emergency doctrine" of the peace, order and good government power in the Constitution Act, 1867. The Council upheld a war-time price control scheme, enacted under the War Measures Act, despite the war having already ended.
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