| Re: Trek's Ride-with-Lance giveaway anti-Canadian?
On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 13:05:11 -0700, Erik Freitag
<erik.freitag@pobox.com> wrote:
>I was browsing the rules for the contest, because I have no chance of
>winning and would complete embarass myself if I did win, when I came
>across this remarkable text:
>
>"A potential recipient of the Grand Prize who is Canadian must
>satisfactorily complete a suitable skills test before the prize is
>awarded, or alternate winner [sic] will be selected".
That satisfies the provision in the law against unlawful games of
chance or draws. A raffle is a game of chance--but if you subject the
winner to a trivial test, or question -and-answer, then it's a test of
skill, and therefore legal.
I believe similar provisions are on the books in other jurisdictions.
=-Luigi
>
>My question: what have Canadians done (or what can't they do) to
>have Trek single them out this way?
>
>And if you are Québécois, you can't even play.
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