14 Canadian Laws That Are Hilariously Absurd
Steven_Seagal
Published
12/03/2015
Interesting laws that are genuinely enforced in certain places in Canada.
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Halifax, Nova Scotia: “Every driver while in control of a taxi or accessible taxi shall wear a shirt or military type blouse with a collar and sleeves (no T-shirts), ankle-length trousers, or dress shorts…” -
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Fredericton, New Brunswick: “No person shall have, keep or possess a snake or other reptile upon the street or in any public place.” -
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Province-wide Alberta: “A person must not paint a wooden ladder.” -
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Province-wide Alberta: “A person shall not purchase, keep or sell live rats unless the person holds a permit issued under subsection.” -
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Sudbury, Ontario: “The operation of any siren or other artificial noise device other than a bell or horn, attached to a bicycle shall be deemed unusual noise.” -
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Toronto, Ontario: “While in a park, no person shall indulge in riotous, boisterous, violent, threatening, or illegal conduct or use profane or abusive language.” -
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Windsor, Ontario: “Musical or sound producing instrument of whatever kind when the same is played or operated in such manner or with such volume as to disturb the peace.” -
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Province-wide Ontario: “An innkeeper, livery-stable keeper or boarding-stable keeper who has a lien upon a horse, other animal or carriage for the value or price of any food or accommodation supplied, or for care or labour bestowed thereon, has, in addition to all other remedies provided by law, the right, in case the same remains unpaid for two weeks, to sell by public auction the horse, animal or carriage on giving two weeks notice of the intended sale…” -
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Oshawa, Ontario: “No person shall interfere with a tree or part of a tree located on municipal property, including but not limited to attaching, affixing or placing upon in any manner any object or thing to a tree or part of a tree, and climbing the tree.” -
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Nation-wide Canada: “Every one who fraudulently pretends to exercise or to use any kind of witchcraft, sorcery, enchantment or conjuration is guilty of an offense punishable on summary conviction.” -
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Nation-wide Canada: In the Criminal Codes of Canada, it states that anyone who “makes, prints, publishes, distributes, sells or has in his possession for the purpose of publication, distribution or circulation of a crime comic” is breaking the law. -
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Nation-wide Canada: “Every one who challenges or attempts by any means to provoke another person to fight a duel, attempts to provoke a person to challenge another person to fight a duel, or accepts a challenge to fight a duel, is guilty of an indictable offense and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years.” -
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Nation-wide Canada: “Where oysters and oyster brood are in oyster beds, layings or fisheries that are the property of any person and are sufficiently marked out or known as the property of that person, that person shall be deemed to have a special property or interest in them.” -
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Nation-wide Canada: “Every one who willfully does an act with intent to alarm Her Majesty.”
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