Quote Originally Posted by Riverkilt
Why not just phone the police and ask them?...and hope that opinion was accurate and shared by the cops working the event?

Ron
Sometimes it's not clear if you ask.

I'm thinking that I've recently seen reports where that is specifically prohibited so the official answer would have to be negative. I have double-checked that. The event people might okay it in context.

In Canadian law, few knives are specifically outlawed. A visible skean dhu is legal (actually a claymore would be but I wouldn't push it). A concealed one would be illegal. Because Canadial law takes the common sense approach that anything can be a weapon, it is the event cops' subjective opinion if it is illegal. That can be based on their assessment of you alone, your attitude/behaviour or even the mood of the event itself. Lack of co-operation would indicate that the cop was right. Their first suggestion is you put it away, it's good to follow that advice. It is a hard defence to challenge.