[calgarygeologist]

Originally Posted by Torture

Technically an interprovincial trade barrier? Maybe not. But practically, it will lead to less interprovincial trade so it might as well be.

Here's a better summary: https://www.biv.com/news/retail-manu...wdown-10400663

It's not even a question of whether or not it is a trade barrier as per your source:

Vancouver lawyer and Harris & Co. partner Shea Coulson represented B.C. wineries and others at the Supreme Court of Canada in that case, which released a judgment in 2018.

He told BIV yesterday that the Comeau case upheld that provinces have jurisdiction over alcohol distribution and related taxes and mark-ups, as long as the provincial mark-ups are not meant to be a tariff barrier that could be unconstitutional.

The Alberta government’s plan to levy its new ad valorem taxes on all grape wines from all over the world is an argument that the new tax is not a targeted tariff barrier, Coulson said.