Welcome to Canada, land of the free, unless you are a wine drinker

Only in Canada is it legal to bring two bottles of wine home from a vacation in Argentina but illegal to bring home, or go online to place an order for, great Canadian wine from another province.

KELOWNA, B.C.—On any given summer weekend Ontarians drive to their cottages in Quebec with a couple of bottles of Canadian wine tucked safely in the trunk of the car. Without knowing it, they have broken the law. By transporting wine, or any alcohol, from one province to another they have v...

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