What is the difference between the law and the law?
Prince Edward Island, Canada
The following excerpt is from Re Petroleum Products Act, 1986 CanLII 3959 (PE SCAD):
As has been noted by McQuaid J., Dickson J. (as he then was) reminds us in Hunter v. Southam Inc. (1984), 1984 CanLII 33 (SCC), 11 D.L.R. (4th) 641 at p. 649, 11 C.C.C. (3d) 97, 2 C.P.R. (3d), [1984] 2 S.C.R. 145, that: "The task of expounding a constitution is crucially different from that of construing a statute."
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