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Article: Low-fat spat; Quebec's silly business regulations.(Business regulations in Quebec)(Brief Article)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- March 30, 2002
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Margarine of any colour, as long as it's white
EUROPE is famous for its plethora of consumer-coddling business regulations. Silly rules have also taken hold in that little piece of Europe in North America, French-speaking Quebec. One local law, for instance, limits large supermarkets to four employees on Sunday, the idea being to promote small stores (whose prices are higher than the supermarkets'). But that looks positively sensible compared with Quebec's rules concerning what you spread on your toast.
Margarine is yellow in every Canadian province except Quebec, where it is its natural colour, white. It is against the law to sell yellow margarine ...