This Case is as Canadian as it Gets.

[pierrelebel]

Man challenges arrest for cross-border beer shoppingNew Brunswick retiree is launching a constitutional challenges after he was arrested by the RCMP for buying cheaper beer in Quebec. A Prohibition-era law is in question.

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2015/07/24/man-challenges-arrest-for-cross-border-beer-shopping.h...

Only in Canada, eh!

[femmefan1946]

When I was working, on Fridays at quitting time, the bus back to Ottawa from Hull had an extra cargo of teenagers/university students carrying back two-fours for weekend partying.

[pierrelebel]

Back in 1964-1965, I worked for a chemical manufacturing and distribution company in Montreal.  The Quebec Liquor stores were on strike that year over the Christmas Holidays and we used our trucks to bring booze from Ontario.  Them were the days! Good old '60s!

[reallynicestamps]

Oh gosh! Now I'm thinking about university.

We used to go over to Hull (from Carleton U in Ottawa) for gallon jugs of Algerian wine. Most of the students in our commune were teenagers so the lower drinking age in Quebec was a big draw.

I was 21 before I could afford university so it was less important, but QC also allowed men and women in the same parts of the tavern, which was verboten in ON.

[mr.elmwood]

Beer, liquor, wine, cigarettes, butter, cheese, milk, gas, diesel, etc are provincially regulated. Same in the US. Each state and province has their own taxation and regulations for each.

That is why there are all those weight stations at every provincial and state border.

Planes flying overhead at 10,000 metres serving drinks? Manitoba sued, and lost, to get their share of the taxes.