Re: Potentially stupid question about AC

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mystix@direct.ca (Herbert Fung) wrote:

>obsbedia2@aol.com (Obsbedia2) writes:
>
>>Nope.  In Canada they ticket you for going the speed limit (no kidding!  The
>>driver, annoyed with all the speeders on the road, put a sign in the back
>>window stating the speed limit and drove it on the dot.   Pulled over,
>>ticketed, taken to court --FOUND GUILTY-- and was taking it to a higher court
>>when I headed back to the States).
>
>And he was guilty for obeying the speed limit? Now that's odd. I know that in
BC
>there is a 'no tolerance' law which meant that you had no buffer. If you were
>even 1KM above the limit, the police could pull you over.

I guess Canadians are traditionalists.  ;-)

When I was in Canada some time ago, there was a law that
prohibited businesses from opening on Sundays.  Even the
supermarkets!  This was in Ontario province, by the way.  At
the time, there were a couple of markets open on Sundays
because they found paying the fine was more than offset by
the extra profits.

There was a big fiasco as the authorities stepped in.  I don't
know what eventually happened because I left for the States
before this was resolved.

In the US, you know that this would not even be an issue.
Folks of other religions would sue and the free market would
take over again.  I can't say I remember a time when stores
were forced to close on Sundays in the US.