Breakfast With Appeal: All about interjurisdictional immunity

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Breakfast With Appeal: All about interjurisdictional immunity
Jul 09, 2025
Torys LLP

The doctrine of interjurisdictional immunity identifies which level of government—federal or provincial—has authority over specific subjects, and to what degree one level of government can intervene in the “core” of another’s powers. In two recent cases, the Supreme Court expanded the limits of interjurisdictional immunity—but the situation remains “complicated.”