I'm very sorry to have to hijack this thread, but I've personally run afoul of rabid environmental enforcers more than once, and neither ignorance of the law, or the idiotic nature of the law itself, offers any reasonable protection.

Environmental enforcers are sometimes entirely reasonable sincere people.

But some are megalomaniacal individuals with a firm belief that they, and they alone, can save Mother Earth from the evil depredations of business people everywhere, and especially, evil Americans.

Canadian WHMIS regulations are nightmarishly confusing and can be applied under certain conditions to US shippers. So the warnings I received about the advice here are very plausible. Without recourse to an EXPENSIVE attorney who is expert in international hazardous material shipping regulations, I simply have to assume the worst, and shut it down.

I don't like it, but can do little about it.

Regarding Lowry, and their enormously bloated pricing, I strongly suspect much of that is opportunistic, rather necessary.

Neil Lowry was one of the first "experts" in pool chemistry I met, after entering the pool industry. I was very impressed by his PhD at first, but I got over it. He died a few years ago, and they say you shouldn't speak ill of the dead, so I'll change the topic.

Howeve, it came about, the Lowry monopoly on Taylor products in Canada has been around for a long time, and is fiercely defended. Even though the monopoly predates WHMIS, I would fully expect them to use WHMIS in whatever way they can to protect that monopoly.

So, the only reasonable thing we can do here is to bow to the powers that be, whether we like it or not.

Ben
PoolDoc