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13. Property and Civil Rights in the Province. It is one of three key residuary powers in the Constitution Act, 1867 , together with the federal power of peace, order and good government and the provincial power over matters of a local or private nature in the province .
Section 92(13) gives the Provinces the exclusive power to make law related to "property and civil rights in the province". In practice, this power has been read broadly to give the provinces authority over numerous matters such as professional trades, labour relations, and consumer protection.
Section 92 has been amended once since the Act was enacted in 1867. Section 92(1) originally gave the provincial legislatures the power to enact laws to amend the constitutions of the provinces, other than the office of the Lieutenant Governor. Section 92(1) was repealed as part of the Patriation of the Constitution.
The Constitution Act, 1867 divides the responsibility between the federal and provincial jurisdictions. Together with the grant under s. 92(14), s. 91(27) carves out "Procedure in Criminal Matters," while s. 96 requires the appointment of "the Judges of the Superior, District, and County Courts in each Province" to be done by the Governor General in Council, and s. 101 grants the Parliament of ...
President Biden announced Monday that he had commuted the sentences of 37 of the 40 current federal death row inmates to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
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ALEX: I had a really hard time forcing myself to go in the room.I wasn’t going to go in. I just wouldn’t do it. My dad said, “If you don’t go in, you will regret it the rest of your life.”
From August 2009 to December 2012, if you bought shares in companies when George S. Barrett joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a 23.9 percent return on your investment, compared to a 42.3 percent return from the S&P 500.