On 5-May-2007, Ken Fortenberry wrote:

It depends on the border droid. It is *not* illegal to take bear
spray into Canada but you might have a hard time convincing the
idiots at the border of that. The technicality is it has to be
clearly labelled *BEAR* spray and not personal defense pepper
spray. Most of the morons on the Canuckistan side of the border
are unaware of this and will confiscate any and all pepper spray.
They'll either mail it to you in the states at your expense or
hold it for you at the border until you come back. There's no
problem bringing bear spray back into the states.

Anymore we just lie when asked if we have bear spray because we
know it's not illegal and you can never be sure about the border
droids.

I would not screw around w the border guards
There are many of them looking to make a name for themselves and to pull
their guns
You would be asking to be the reason for all this and with the cost of
pepper spray
It just is NOT worth it.
Buy it in Canada if you need it

Fred