Johannesson v. West St. Paul
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Johannesson v. Rural Municipality West St. Paul [1952] 1 S.C.R. 297 is a leading Supreme Court of Canada decision on the federal jurisdiction over aeronautics. This was also the first Supreme Court case to analyse the peace, order and good government provision of the Constitution and was the beginning of it modern interpretation.
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[edit] Background
Konnie Johannesson bought a plot of land near the Red River in order to build a landing strip. The neighbourhood brought an action against him to prevent him from building the strip on the basis that it violated a municipal law that regulated the building of aerodromes.
[edit] Opinion of the Court
The majority held that aeronautics was a distinctive matter of national importance and so should with within the exclusive jurisdiction of the federal government under the "peace, order, and good government" power.
In examining the test set out in Ontario v. Canada Temperance Federation, the Court found that the matter went "beyond local or provincial concern or interests and must from its inherent nature be the concern of the Dominion as a whole".
[edit] Aftermath
In 1949, Johannesson built the landing strip and ran it until his death in 1968.
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