Can a municipality make policy and operational decisions?
Saskatchewan, Canada
The following excerpt is from Fall v Moose Jaw (City), 2012 SKPC 70 (CanLII):
Municipalities, such as the City of Moose Jaw, make policy and operational decisions. Both counsel addressed this and referred to the same cases, namely Just v. British Columbia, [1987] 2 S.C.R. 1228 and Brown v. British Columbia, 1994 CanLII 121 (SCC), [1994] 1 S.C.R. 420.
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