Mark Hicken, a lawyer with the Vintage Law Group, says the Canadian wine industry may soon be `on the same footing` as winemakers in many other countries.

`If you told somebody from Paris that they couldn`t buy wine from Bordeaux, they`d look at you aghast,` Hicken told CTV News Channel Friday.

The decision ended a years-long case against Gerard Comeau, a retired man from Tracadie, N.B., who was fined $292 and charged with illegally importing alcohol in 2012 when he was caught bringing 14 cases of beer and three bottles of liquor into New Brunswick from Quebec.

But Hicken says any changes likely won`t happen overnight. He says the New Brunswick decision could be appealed and move through the legal system all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada.

While more time in court would delay any changes, Hicken says it could establish a binding legal precedent across the country.

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