…you’re not allowed to stone your wife in Herouxville, Que:
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/canada_stoning_col

http://municipalite.herouxville.qc.ca/standards.pdf

This is problematic on so many levels. As to legal validity: (1) To the extent that it’s aimed at the Kirpan, at least the bit about not bringing “weapons” to school is offside the Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms, according to a recent SCC decision. (2) even to the extent that the “standards” are substantively OK, they lie mostly or entirely within federal or provincial (not municipal) jurisdiction. (E.g., prohibitions on assault, murder, etc. are criminal law and lie within exclusive federal jurisdiction. Human rights are generally within provincial jurisdiction, unless you’re a federally regulated enterprise, e.g., a railroad or a bank.)

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