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The police are fully within their rights to determine if a law is worth enforcing. Here in Ontario it's still on the books that if you purchase alcohol it has t
by electromagnetic 15y ago
The police are fully within their rights to determine if a law is worth enforcing. Here in Ontario it's still on the books that if you purchase alcohol it has to be taken directly to the property it's going to be stored at. IIRC the law dates back to bootlegging days to prosecute the mafia shipping the alcohol down into the US. This isn't even mentioning the laws still on the books that got inherited from the British system.
- recoil 15y ago> British system Nitpick, but there's no such thing. You mean the English legal system. Scotland's legal system is completely different (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_law http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_law), as is that of Northern Ireland.
- electromagnetic 15y agoActually in Canada the law is inherited from England, Scotland and Ireland and IIRC is up to a judges discretion as to whether the common law applies. This is due to the fact that many of the people originally immigrating to Canada came from Scotland and Ireland.