The author examines odd statutes and arcane jurisprudence across the whole spectrum of Canadian endeavour from war and religion to sex and culture to politics and business. Frequently, Tarantino demonstrates the parallels between yesterday’s prohibitions and today’s trends such as the edict against duelling and the legalities of twenty-first-century hockey slugfests, or the confiscation of so-called "crime comics" in the 1950s and the controversy surrounding violence in contemporary video games.
