Be aware that is only affects customs/border and not actual Canadian law. Customs has been pushing their authority for a long time now.
They have another "Tribunal" decision that lets them adjust pivot screws so they can loosen them to make a legal knife into a "prohibited" one.
This decision allows them to open any folding knife however much they want, even to 99% and then try to flick it open. Even a Swiss Army knife would fail under those conditions.
I have emphasized a bit of the link, the "CBSA resolves that" so it is not actual Canadian law, just over reach by the CBSA.
Quote:
2. In accordance with subsection 84(1) of the Criminal Code and the CITT’s recent decision in T. LaPlante, the CBSA resolves that centrifugal knives will be classified as prohibited weapons if the following conditions are met:
a knife has a blade that opens by centrifugal force, when the blade is released from the handle into the fully ejected and locked position with a simple and brisk outwardly flick of the wrist; and
it includes knives that require some preliminary or simultaneous minimal manipulation of either a flipper or other non-edged parts of the blade.
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