If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. If you teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime. But what if a man has the right to sell fish, and he builds his business and livelihood around that right, and then the government passes a law allowing only the government to sell fish, putting him out of business? In a nutshell, that s the backdrop for a 1979 Supreme Court of Canada SCC decision called Manitoba Fisheries Ltd. v. The Queen.
On October 21, 2022, the Supreme Court of Canada (the "SCC") released its decision in Annapolis Group Inc. v Halifax Regional Municipality, 2022 SCC 36 (“Annapolis”), affirming and.