Is a general law dealing with the administration of the estates of persons who may become bankrupt or insolvent?

I do not enter into the question, somewhat discussed at the bar, as to whether the power given being general, the Dominion Parliament instead of passing a general law dealing with the subject of the administration of estates of persons who may become bankrupt or insolvent according to certain rules and definitions, including, as was remarked in L’Union St. Jacques v. Bélisle, L.R. 6 P.C. 31, “the conditions in which that law is to be brought into operation and the effect of its operation,” were empowered to pass a law affecting only a particular firm who were in embarrassed or insolvent circumstances and making a special bankruptcy law applicable to that particular firm. It is not necessary to speculate upon that question as it is sufficient to say that such a contingency is to the utmost degree improbable and no such legislation has been attempted in the present case.