Re: boating laws in Canada
It's too bad I don't still have the magazine, but i read an article last year in an American boating magazine on this topic. They were stating that Ontario had the toughest laws in N. America regarding acohol, but a few States have already adopted the same laws (Ohio, Minnesota? and Arizona?) and most will follow suit. You ARE permitted to have alohol on ANY boat in Ontario provided it is, and has never been opened. That is, on a bottle, the seal must be in place, or a case of beer MUST be full, i.e. all bottles/cans must be there and full.<br />The exception to that rule is as Roscoe stated.<br />The police up here really DO have a zero tolerance for drinking and driving. However, if your boat doesn't meet the requirements for consuming alcohol on board, they still might let you off if you are transporting partially consumed alcohol say from a cottage or campsite and back. Providing of course that is obvious that that is what you are doing.<br />If you think about it, the reason for NOT allowing alcohol that is not in it's original seal/quantity is fairly obvious: you could be consuming while underway and tossing the empties overboard or stowing the unused protions.
