18 Ridiculous Laws in Canada:
18 Ridiculous Laws in Canada:
1. Nova Scotia: a person is not allowed to water their grass when it’s raining.
2. Cobourg, Ontario: if you have a water trough in your front yard, it must be filled by 5:00am.
3. Guelph, Ontario: the city is classified as a no pee zone.
4. Toronto, Ontario: it’s illegal to drag a dead horse down Younge Street on a Sunday.
5. Montreal, Ontario: you are not allowed to wash your car in the street or park your car in a way that it blocks your own driveway.
6. Ottawa, Ontario: you are not allowed to eat ice cream on Bank Street on a Sunday.
7. Beaconsfield, Canada: it’s considered an offense to have more than two colours on your house; and you are not allowed to own a log cabin.
8. Uxbridge, Ontario: it’s illegal to have an internet connection faster than 56k.
9. In Kanata, Ontario: it’s illegal to have a clothes line in your back yard.
10. Oshawa, Ontario: it’s illegal to climb trees.
11. Fort Qu’Appelle Quebec: it is illegal for a teen to walk downtown main street with his shoes untied.
12. anywhere in Canada: it is illegal to pay for a 26 cent item in all pennies. The limit is 25 cents. If you are paying for your item in nickels, then its illegal to pay for it in nickels if its over $5. Its also illegal to pay for something over $10 dollars in all dimes.
13. anywhere in Canada: every 5th song on the radio must be by a Canadian born citizen.
14. In Alberta back in the day: it was the law when a prisoner was released from jail that he would be given a gun and horse to ride out of town or city.
15. Through out Ontario the average speed limit is 80 km/h for cars, BUT bicyclists have the right of way.
16. anywhere in Canada: No one is allowed to watch or
listen to encrypted broadcast which is not licensed by the Canadian Government. This basically means that it is illegal to use US satellite systems like “Direct TV”.
17. London, Ontario: it is against the city by-law to allow your grass in your front yard to grow any taller then a inch and a half. If you do, the city will come by and cut it for you then give you a fine for $200.
18. Quebec: all business signs must be in French. If the owner wants English on the sign then the French print has to be twice as large as the English print.
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