Dumb Laws in Canada
I was looking at some of the laws for Canada - the law against yellow margarine applies only in Quebec (it is intended to protect the provincial butter industry, as margarine must be coloured an unappealing white or orange colour). In any other province, margarine can legally be coloured yellow.
It used to be illegal to sell margarine in Canada at all, but the Supreme Court struck down the law in 1949 (and this was upheld by the British Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, which was still the final court of appeal in Canada for civil cases until 1949). The reference was Reference re Validity of Section 5(a) of the Dairy Industry Act (Margarine Reference) [1949] SCR 1; [1949] 1 DLR 433.
Also, the law concerning Quebec signs has been changed due to a Supreme Court ruling - the language of the signs must now be predominantly in French, but the provincial government cannot ban English on the signs. The case was Ford v. Quebec (AG), [1988] 2 SCR 712; 54 DLR (4th) 577.
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