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Implicit in the first of the two questions raised in this appeal was the contention, pursued by the Attorney General of Canada, that if the Combines Investigation Act, and especially s. 32(1)(c) thereof, was supportable under the federal trade and commerce power, the assertion of exclusive provincial prosecutorial authority would be precluded even if (and this was also contested) it was sustainable in relation to the prosecution of criminal offences. I may say that I find it impossible to separate prosecution for offences resting on a violation of valid trade and commerce legislation and those resting on a violation of the federal criminal law. If exclusive provincial authority rests in the latter, it must equally rest in the former. Indeed, counsel for the respondent Canadian National Transportation, Limited was bold enough—and I think he was logically right-to sweep all offences under federal legislation, enacted pursuant to federal enumerated power under s. 91, into the exclusive care and authority of provincial prosecuting officers. In short, if the provinces are constitutionally in control of criminal prosecutions, they must equally be in control of other prosecutions resting on violation of federal legislation other than under the criminal law, at least so far as the prosecutions are brought in provincial courts. Any reading of s. 92(14) of the provincial catalogue of powers does not exhibit any special mention, indeed there is no
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