General Motors of Canada Ltd. v. City National Leasing 1 S.C.R. 641, is a leading Supreme Court of Canada decision on the scope of the Trade and Commerce powers of the Constitution Act, 1867 as well as the interpretation of the Ancillary doctrine.
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