Their message has fallen mostly on deaf ears, but that has not stopped them from trying this time with more gusto than ever.Because securities law falls under the provinces' jurisdiction, each of the ten provinces and three federally administered territories has its own rules, plus a regulator to enforce them.
When the rebellious tribes of Cantabria in modern-day Spain were finally quelled in 19 BC, the territory fell under the provinces of Hispania and Lusitania.
Today's protest included not only fighting but also bitter statements against the Catholics, who were once a minority discriminated against, but who have made some gains under the province's power-sharing government.
In other developments, the players union and 16 Montreal Canadiens players filed a motion Wednesday with the Quebec Labor Relations Board to have a lockout declared illegal under the province's labor laws.
"You can't gain any hope as a result of this, per se," said Gould, who has served as an arbitrator in baseball and will appear as an expert witness for the N.H.L. at a Quebec labor board hearing next week on whether the lockout is lawful under the province's laws.
And those convicted of sex outside of marriage (zina) can be flogged with a rattan cane up to 100 times under the province's Sharia Law.
He indicated that these may include consolidating health authorities, closing rural hospitals, and de-listing some health services from coverage under the province's public health insurance scheme.
According to a 2006 report written by Boyer for the National Aboriginal Health Organization, for example, 2,800 people were sterilized between 1929 and 1972 under the province's Sexual Sterilization Act, which was "intended to stop 'mental defectives' from having children".
Under the province's civil forfeiture laws, the government can file a lawsuit to obtain property — land, cash, cars, phones — without having to convict, or even charge, someone of a crime.
They were able to conduct the raids and issue fines of $575 [$438 USD] for the unlawful sale of cannabis under the province's Cannabis Control and Licensing Act.
The arrests came just two days before two men will publicly receive 85 lashes with the cane after their arrest in Banda Aceh in late March and conviction of sodomy under the province's Sharia law.
