Sell a candy bar in Canada, on which a contest is advertised in big, shiny colours. But to which contest only US citizens are eligible? The fact that it is only open to US citizens is stated at the back with all the small writings.
If they state mass production as an excuse, would it hold in a court of law? (this is all hypothetically, I have no intention to bring this to court)
I realize that there are two different law systems in Canada (mainly Québec’s and the rest) and I also believe that advertisement laws are a provincial issue (so if someone knows something more particularly about Québec and Ontario that would help me a lot)
I think your point might be that for the candy bars to be sold in Canada, it would have to abide by Canadian packaging laws (dual language / Ingredient listing).
So if the bar is imported, but they went through the trouble of making the new labels, why include reference to a contest we can’t enter?
As far as false advertising goes, no I don’t think that’s a problem. That’s why there is fine print. If anything, we need to crack down on TV ads that flash a tiny block of print at the bottom of the screen that is impossinble to read.
Of course, in the grand scheme of things, I’d like Parliment to take care of our books, health care and Social Insurance, long before we clog up the courts with this petty stuff.
