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Date: 1980-07-16
By: Government of Canada [?]
Citation: Draft, For Discussion Purposes Only [Section 121] (16 July 1980).
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DRAFT

FOR DISCUSSION PURPOSES ONLY

July 16, 1980

Canadian economic union

121. (1) Neither Canada nor a province shall by law or practice discriminate in a manner that ^[unduly] impedes the operation of the Canadian economic union, directly or indirectly, on the basis of the province or territory of residence or former residence of a person, on the basis of the province or territory of origin or destination of goods, services or capital or on the basis of the province or territory into which or from which goods, services or capital are imported or exported.

Derogation

(2) Nothing in subsection (1) renders invalid a law of Parliament or of a legislature enacted in the interests of public safety, order, health or morals.

Idem

(3) Nothing in subsection (1) renders invalid a law of Parliament enacted in the interests of national security [pursuant to an international obligation undertaken by Canada] or pursuant to the principles of equalization and regional development to which Parliament and the legislatures are committed, or declared by Parliament to be in an overriding national interest, ^[or]]

Customs union

(4) Nothing in subsection (2) or (3) renders valid a law of Parliament or a legislature that impedes the admission free into any province of goods, services or capital originating in or imported into any other province or territory.