How Many Canadians Needed In A Gangbang?

Steyn on Porn:

Canada seems in many ways less regulated than the sclerotic, bureaucracy-choked republic to the south. Yet, oddly, sex is a fraught business. A couple of years back, as a reminder of the forensic intrusions of the regulatory state, I passed along this tale (from the Montreal Gazette) of the unilingual anglophone sex aid that fell afoul of the commissars:

Distribution Percour Inc., owner of Boutique Séduction in Montreal North, has been ordered by a Quebec Court judge to pay $500 for selling an item called Sleeve Super Stretch whose packaging was in English only.
The April 19 ruling came after a failed six-year effort by the Office québécois de la langue française to get the store to stick French labels on Sleeve Super Stretch boxes.
Acting on a citizen's complaint, an OQLF inspector visited the store in 2004 and photographed the packaging of the sex-toy accessory worn by men.

"Acting on a citizen's complaint": There speaks the sexually liberated statist. "I went into a sex store and I was absolutely disgusted – by the English-speaking sex aids."

In his 10-page ruling, Judge Gilles Michaud slammed the defendant's claim that the device is exempt under Quebec's law on the language of commerce and trade.
For safety reasons, Michaud said, it's important for consumers to be able to understand written instructions on the items they buy.
"We must protect those who benefit from warnings and need to understand them," Michaud wrote.

Heaven forbid that a confused francophone should attempt to wear the product on his nose. Fortunately, prosecutors were able, with the use of public funds, to hunt down Quebec-compliant sex aids:

A crown prosecutor presented the store with a similar product made by Trojan that comes with bilingual packaging.
But Gaudreau responded that the Trojan item is not exactly the same. "It vibrates," she told the court. "Customers won't like it."

You can find the court decision here, and the OQLF fine details here.

As Pierre Trudeau assured Canadians, the state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation. Unless you're in there wearing a non-vibrating anglophone sex aid - or watching a non-closed-captioned Man of Idaho engage in an insufficiently voiceover-narrated sex act with a Brazilian transsexual."

Let me add. I didn't realize Quebec was filled with retarded people protected by, well, other retarded people who wear robes.

They used the same lame ass excuse when they hunted down the word 'pasta' claiming people needed to know what they were eating.

The way I see it, and I admit I'm in a tiny minority, people who are too idiotic and ignorant to know what 'pasta' is deserves to choke on ziti.

It'll improve the IQ of the flock.

Other than that, maybe Quebecers should wear helmets before they leave the house because they never know if they're going to encounter big, bad English words that can injure them.

Alabama, Ho!