Monday, August 22, 2005
Quebec is in horrible financial shape and on the verge of potential civil disobedience but...
...at least we can now have access to butter-coloured margarine.An interprovincial panel has determined that the province must open its borders to butter-coloured margarine by Sept. 1, a ruling that will apparently end one of Canada's most enduring — and, for some, amusing — internal trade disputes.
According to the Vegetable Oil Industry of Canada, which represents margarine producers like Unilever Canada Inc., long-haul trucks are set to spread yellow margarine across Quebec, the only jurisdiction in North America yet to end its ban on butter-coloured margarine.
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# posted by Shaky @ 11:09 p.m. 
