chaga wrote on Jun 3^rd, 2015 at 1:03pm:

By reading the CBSA site I would agree with OS. After calling I feel I will have to send for a new one. I was convinced by the mention of a $1,000 fine! Thanks Bill :'(

It would appear the people who administer and enforce the regulations are at least slightly better at their job then the people who do their websites.  I think the problem at least partially lies in the attempts to digest and summarize the regulations - both for the Q and BWCA traveler but also more broadly - for the internet.  I wish they would publish the actual regulations as well.  (I've discovered that for a lot of BWCA regulations, they are still just in hardcopy and not stored electronically so not widely available.)

PS - and the $1000 wouldn't be so bad but I think you can also never return to Canada!  Who among us wants to risk never being able to return to the Quetico?  A fate worse than death.  I wonder if it would prevent my sons from taking my ashes there?