Tamiya spray cans banned in Canada!!!

[Bullybeef]

I’m not familiar with the source. Just thought I’d share. 

[Ace-Garageguy]

You know, if this is true, some of these rulemakers really need to get lives of their own and quit living for ways to meddle pointlessly in everyone else's.

Edited September 24, 2024 by Ace-Garageguy
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[RW033]

Going thru this at work - lots of aerosol based chemicals are no longer available for purchase in Canada, and some non-aerosol stuff as well. I heard there was some bill passed that banned certain chemicals but not exactly sure what exactly

[Bill Eh?]

8 minutes ago, Ace-Garageguy said:

You know, if this is true, some of these rulemakers really need to get lives of their own and quit living for ways to meddle pointlessly in everyone else's.

I guess we strive to top ourselves  on the lack of common sense meter. A little while back our Ontario Provincial Police charged a a woman with assault with a weapon, when she accidentally shot a neighbour with a Nerf-style water gun. But this latest development definitely tops that! LOL

[StevenGuthmiller]

1 hour ago, Ace-Garageguy said:

You know, if this is true, some of these rulemakers really need to get lives of their own and quit living for ways to meddle pointlessly in everyone else's.

If they did that, they would have no reason to exist.

it’s their only purpose.

 

 

 

Steve

[Rodent]

I think we should all take our airbrushes to Ottawa and clean them with hardware store lacquer thinner ? 

[Bullybeef]

1 hour ago, RW033 said:

Going thru this at work - lots of aerosol based chemicals are no longer available for purchase in Canada, and some non-aerosol stuff as well. I heard there was some bill passed that banned certain chemicals but not exactly sure what exactly

Yes I haven’ t found any further information regarding the bill regarding the ban.

[sfhess]

In California, Gov. Slick just signed a bill banning plastic grocery bags starting in 2026.

Edited September 24, 2024 by sfhess

[Bullybeef]

Just now, sfhess said:

In California, Gov. Slick just signed a bill banning plastic grocery bags starting in 2026.

That’s been a thing in Canada for a couple of years, along with plastic drinking straws. 

[Dave Van]

It is SO FANTASTIC that Canada, much like the USA, has FIXED ALL other more important issues and are now affecting peoples livelihood. 

Tamiya spray changed the hobby. If I lived in CANADA my spare tire in the car would be filed with TS each trip. 

[Bill Eh?]

Dave, I will keep this in mind at the next NNL East, where Dave Burkett often sells this product at his Model King space.

[Mark]

Canadians will have to start making copies of Testors or Krylon Short Cuts labels, to paste onto Tamiya spray cans for the border crossing...

[Biggu]

Ottawa doesn’t like semi trucks either…….. the No Fun Police is hard at work.  This nonsense is getting WAY out of hand. Maybe they should be a little more concerned with our food and water ? Asking for a friend….

[Brian Austin]

How about waiting for more facts?

All I find is this one video and maybe a thread or two discussing it.

[1972coronet]

Canadafornia

[Ace-Garageguy]

24 minutes ago, 1972coronet said:

Canadafornia

In Arizona, adults can buy and use any number of "harmful dangerous deadly OMG OMG OMG!!!" materials in the hardware store.

Go across the state border, and getting some stuff like MEK is like trying to buy plutonium.

Oddly, Az. doesn't have a whole lot of scary mutants running around.

And (partially depending on whose data you parrot) Az. has one of the lowest cancer rates in the nation...lower than Cali according to some statistics, only marginally higher according to others.

Go figure.

 

 

Edited September 25, 2024 by Ace-Garageguy
CLARITY and ACCURACY

[Richard Bartrop]

Checking that now, because the internet is a festering pit of lies and misinformation, and It wouldn't be the first time we flew into a panic over nothing.

This video seems to be the only reference to the ban, and this link says that, if anything, Canada has lifted a ban on certain paint chemicals.

https://canpaint.com/canada-reverses-ban-on-octhilinone-in-paints-and-coatings/

At the very least check with your local hobby store before you engage in mass hysteria.

[Straightliner59]

11 hours ago, sfhess said:

In California, Gov. Slick just signed a bill banning plastic grocery bags starting in 2026.

It's been over a year, here in Colorado. They've switched to paper for a die, each. There's no end to the greed and stupidity of government. Everybody just govern yourself, properly, and we can tell these idiot-thieves to pack sand.

[Bullybeef]

5 hours ago, Richard Bartrop said:

Checking that now, because the internet is a festering pit of lies and misinformation, and It wouldn't be the first time we flew into a panic over nothing.

This video seems to be the only reference to the ban, and this link says that, if anything, Canada has lifted a ban on certain paint chemicals.

https://canpaint.com/canada-reverses-ban-on-octhilinone-in-paints-and-coatings/

At the very least check with your local hobby store before you engage in mass hysteria.

Yes, like I had mentioned I have no validation of the source video, and have found no further evidence of said ban. There is only one hobby store local to me and they are only open on Saturday, their primary is mail order. Either way it’s crappy as I primarily only use Tamiya spray. 

[Richard Bartrop]

Oh, don't let me interrupt your mass hysteria.

Edited September 25, 2024 by Richard Bartrop

[Ace-Garageguy]

1 hour ago, Richard Bartrop said:

Oh, don't let me interrupt your mass hysteria.

Hmmmmm...I'm just not seeing the "hysteria" part.

Could you point it out? I'm kinda slow.

[Fabrux]

Starting to trickle in from more hobby shops; this is from one in Nova Scotia.

[Bullybeef]

25 minutes ago, Fabrux said:

Starting to trickle in from more hobby shops; this is from one in Nova Scotia.

Thank you Chris, we will have to wait to see how this develops I guess, it does suck though as I’m due for a restock of a couple of colours and especially primers.

[The Junkman]

16 hours ago, sfhess said:

In California, Gov. Slick just signed a bill banning plastic grocery bags starting in 2026.

I've had nothing but reusable grocery bags since they started charging 10 cents for the plastic ones (something like 8-10 years ago?).  Governor Brylcreem did nothing that affected me with this pronouncement.

[maxwell48098]

Ironic for the past two years, or longer, Canada has had wildfires burning unabated dumping millions of tons of toxins and carbon into the atmosphere, but Tamiya spray paints are dangerous!  Where I live in the lower 48, we've even been blessed by the smoke from these Canadian fires resulting in air quality alerts and warnings, and we worry about global warming and mandating EVs?  politics in place of actual science is always dangerous for the guy on the bottom, but never the politicians.  Weird world we live in.