By Alan Hustak on September 9, 2010
Summer traditionally is considered the silly season in the news business and it doesn’t get any sillier than in Quebec. There may be dumber regulatory jurisdictions in the world, but you would be hard pressed to find them. Just when you thought nothing could be sillier than the language police, or the garbage police, the tobacco police appear. You didn’t know we have tobacco police? Either did I until the Journal de Montreal broke the story that they were on the march, out in full force during the Grand Prix weekend.
