Strange Canadian Laws

[Kirkendall 1st MRB]

I didn't want you guys to think I was unprepared, I've been saving these for a rainy day.

Oh, and Parker, Toronto laws prohibit you from your Sunday activities. Looks like you gotta wait until Monday!

Here are some more dated laws:

· 30% of a radio stations content must be "Canadian Content"

· You may not pay for a fifty-cent item with only pennies.

· Citizens may not publicly remove bandages.

· It is illegal for clear or non-dark sodas to contain caffeine.

Alberta Provincial Laws

· Businesses must provide rails for tying up horses.

· Wooden logs may not be painted.

· It is illegal to set fire to the wooden leg of a wooden legged man

· You may never use dice to play craps.

City Laws

· If you are released from prison, it is required that you are given a handgun with bullets and a horse, so you can ride out of town.

British Columbia Provincial Laws

· It is illegal to kill a sasquatch.

New Brunswick Provincial Laws

· Driving on the roads is not allowed.

Nova Scotia Provincial Laws

· When raining, a person may not water his/her lawn.

Ontario Provincial Laws

· The speed limit is 80 kph for cars, but bicyclists have the right of way.

City Laws

Etobicoke

· Bylaw states that no more than 3.5 inches of water is allowed in a bathtub.

Cobourg

· If you have a water trough in your front yard it must be filled by 5:00 a.m.

Gananoque

· Homeowners are responsible for clearing snow off of municipal sidewalks.

Guelph

· The city is classified as a no-pee zone.

Kanata

· The colour of house and garage doors is regulated by city bylaws (a purple door get you a fine). It is also illegal to have a clothes line in your backyard.

· You can't work on your car in the street.

Oshawa

· It's illegal to climb trees.

· Homeowners are responsible for clearing snow off of municipal sidewalks. If sidewalks is not cleaned within 24 hours after a snowfall, city workers will clean it and the cost will be placed on the homeowners tax bill.

Ottawa

· It is illegal to eat ice-cream on Bank Street on a Sunday.

Toronto

· You can't drag a dead horse down Yonge St. on a Sunday.

Uxbridge

· Residents are not allowed to have an Internet connection faster than 56k.

Wawa

· You may not paint a ladder as it will be slippery when wet.

· It is illegal to show public affection on Sunday.

Quebec Provincial Laws

· It is illegal to turn right on a red light at any time.

· All business signs in the province of Quebec must be in French. If the business operator wishes to have English on the sign, the French must be at least twice as large as the English is. There are no laws governing the usage of other languages on signs. -Bill 101 (Passed 1976)

· No language other than French is permitted to be shown out doors.

City Laws

Beaconsfield

· It is considered an offence to have more than two colours of paint on your house.

· You may not own a log cabin.

Montréal

· The Queen Elizabeth Hotel must feed your horse freely when you rent a room.

· You may not wash your car in the street.

· You may not park a car in such a way that it is blocking your own driveway.

· "For Sale" signs are not permitted in the windows of moving vehicles.

· Cars parked in public places must be locked, and their windows must be down to less than the width of a hand.

· One's rear license plate may not be protected by glass or plastic.

· You may not swear in French.

· Citizens may not relieve themselves or spit on the street. Punishable by a fine of over 100 Canadian dollars.

Outremont

· Not only do all exterior painting jobs require a permit (for colour) but, for instance, the City went to Appeals Court over the exact type of division inside a window frame.

[Yamagata 1st MRB]

Hahaha, oh great.

[Parker 1st MRB]

Wait whats so funny, these are real.

The other day I was going 80 Km/h when this bicyclist just cut me off going 120 Km/h. And when I'm coming home from chirch on Sunday I don't wanna see dead horses being dragged on the street.

These are serious issues.

[I have no arms BAR]

Canadians are weird.

[Weimert 1st MRB]

Wherever the fuck Parker lives:

Every Canadian has to eat pancakes in the morning with syrup.

[J. Clark]

Wherever the fuck Parker lives:

Every Canadian has to eat pancakes in the morning with syrup.

you say that like its a bad thing

[Gooderham 1st MRB]

If you had a wooden leg would you want some punk kids lighting it on fire?

[Weimert 1st MRB]

No but if I saw a one legged man with his wooden leg on fire, I couldn't help but laugh. Do you think he could stop drop and roll without getting any splinters?

[J. Clark]

you guys are looking at it the wrong way what if it was a really bad wooden leg and you had to get a new one so you hire some kids to light it on fire for insurance fraud

[Janke 1st MRB]

I once read a book on this same topic called "You Can't do That in Canada." Another one is in the province of Quebec you can't have butter coloured margarine. Also, hovercraft are illegal on Ontario highways.

[Le 1st MRB]

This isn't strange, but i just find it too damn slow!

Unless otherwise posted, the maximum speed limit in Canada is 50km/hr in cities and 80km/hr on highways. On rural highways, the posted speed limit may be 100km/hr (approximately 60 miles/h

Here we can do 60 even if its not on the highway, and more if it is on the highway.

and no radar detectors? c'mon

[J. Anderson 1st MRB]

hahaha lmao

[Bryant 1st MRB]

hahaha lmao

....free time?

[Peaker]

For the butter coloured margarine, that's actually a relic of the strong dairy lobby there is in the province, butter producers not wanting people to buy margarine (which is cheaper) rather than butter and passing it off as such to guests.

And you can definitely turn right on a red light in Quebec City, but that was only changed a few years back.

It's also not like anyone actually follows the regulations in bill 101 either.

[Gardner2]

It's still legal to shoot natives on Sundays from a stage coach in my home town.

[evo-lution ßÄЯ]

It's still legal to shoot natives on Sundays from a stage coach in my home town.

Of course it is.

In my state:

You aren’t allowed to cross a street while walking on your hands.

You may not educate dogs.

It is illegal for a man to kiss his wife on Sunday.

[Ultranator BAR]

Gananoque

· Homeowners are responsible for clearing snow off of municipal sidewalks.

Guelph

· The city is classified as a no-pee zone.

The first one I think is perfectly understandable, and the second I would be all for, as I watched a man walking home from the bar on a Sunday afternoon, stop and pee in the bushes across the street from my house.

[Yamagata 1st MRB]

The first one I think is perfectly understandable, and the second I would be all for, as I watched a man walking home from the bar on a Sunday afternoon, stop and pee in the bushes across the street from my house.

I know in most of California you're responsible for the sidewalk in front of your property. If it get's wrecked, you have to pay to get it repaired.

[Englebretson 1st MRB]

Same here. You would think every state would have a similar law put in place in the big cities.