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Section 92(10) of the Constitution Act, 1867

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The reference to "Telegraphs" has been held to include telephones. In the Radiocommunication reference, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council held that radiocommunication was a matter of a national scope and was therefore a matter of exclusive federal jurisdiction. Television programming has
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A transportation or communication work or undertaking will be under government control under section 92(10) where it is extending outside of the province. This does not mean that a physical connection is necessary or that it is sufficient. What matters is the nature of the work or undertaking as a
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Section 92(10)(a) and (b) grants federal jurisdiction over modes of interprovincial and international transportation and communication, leaving intraprovincial transportation and communication to the provinces. The legal interpretation
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going concern. A transport or communication undertaking will be considered "connecting" where business operations extend beyond the provincial border, or has a close operational relationship with an inter-provincial undertaking
51:(a) Lines of Steam or other Ships, Railways, Roads, Telegraphs, and other Works and Undertakings connecting the Province with any other or others of the Provinces, or extending beyond the Limits of the Province; 142:
The declaration must be made by the passing of legislation, but in addition to declaring specific works, whole classes of work can be defined as being "for the general advantage of Canada" by default; the
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In general terms, works declared by the Parliament of Canada to be "for the general Advantage of Canada" or "for the Advantage of Two or more of the Provinces" tend to be part of the national
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limits the scope of the exceptions to subsection 92(10). The declaratory power conferred to the federal parliament under 92(10) c) however, applies to works of all types. The
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29. Such Classes of Subjects as are implicitly excepted in the Enumeration of the Classes of Subjects by this Act assigned exclusively to the Legislatures of the Provinces.
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been held to be part of that jurisdiction but it is unclear whether it is so only because it is ancillary to the regulation of communications undertaking.
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Whenever parliament invokes the power, it gains not only jurisdiction over the work but also any necessarily incidental operations. In
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As of 2006, the declaratory power has been invoked at least 422 times, but not since 1961, and of which 64% was related to railways.
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see Peter W. Hogg, Constitutional Law of Canada, Looseleaf, 5th ed., Thomson Carswell, Scarborough, 2007, 22.4
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exercises authority over these three matters under section 91(29), which states:
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10. Local Works and Undertakings other than such as are of the following Classes:
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Part II – Rights of the Aboriginal peoples of Canada
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Index

Work and undertaking
Constitution Act, 1867
Parliament of Canada
Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
infrastructure
Ontario Hydro v. Ontario
Atomic Energy Control Act
The City of Montreal v. Montreal Street Railway


Radio Reference
''The Corporation of the City of Toronto'' v. ''Bell Telephone Company of Canada''
Capital Cities Communications v. CRTC
"Preliminary Observations on the Law"
"Some Comments on Section 92(10) of the Constitution Act, 1867"
McGill Law Journal
McGill Law School
"The declaratory power in the Canadian constitution"
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Constitution of Canada
List of constitutional documents
Amendments to the Constitution
Quasi-constitutional law
Pre-Confederation constitutional documents
Iroquois constitution
Mi'kmaq constitution
Constitution of New France
Royal Proclamation of 1763

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