I didn't look closely at them but happened to notice Canadian Tire have Swiss Army Knives in their stores. Pressumably they are legal but do you have to be careful of the situation you carry them as in the UK below?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...e-picnics.html

Good grief. Erm, no.

I was at a children's festival in Burlington on Sunday. I walked past a stall and some woman asked if I was interested in finding daycare for my daughter. I have a space but I asked if they had a centre in Mississauga. She said yes, and gave me a keychain with their contact details. I took a closer look after I had wandered off - Christian childcare centre, printed on the case of a mini swiss army knife In case the under 3's go rogue?

Soon after I arrived here I asked my brother-in-law if it was OK to carry a multitool, he looked at me sideways & asked why it wouldn't be. I explained the situation in the UK to him & he just stood there shaking his head..

I almost always carry one. Have done for many years. It's been very helpful on numerous occasions.

In Ontario it's legal to carry a gun (a long gun, not a pistol) in the manner described, nevermind a pen knife. The gun should not be in plain sight and should have either a trigger lock or be in a case; conditions the knife met.

I have a fabulous swiss army knife/multi tool that used to live on my work key ring. I was always using it to fix various things , re wire my lab etc.

I got so fed up with the hysteria surrounding knives in schools and justifying why it would be reasonable for someone teaching a practical subject to need such a tool ( its not like I would leave it lying around it was on my waist loop with my keys and security badge), eventually I gave it and it lay at home unused.

I really missed my swiss army knife

His real name is MacGyver

It would be interesting to know how many people have been killed with a Swiss Army knife in the UK in the last 30 years?

I can remember at middle school, about the age of 11 or so, everyone had a little penknife with other tools, and the Swiss Army one was the top one to have. I can't honestly remember there being any "trouble" to do with the penknives then.

From memory the law of England and Wales prohibited carrying a knife in public with a blade longer than 3 inches without a good excuse. I don`t know if the law has changed but I cannot imagine why this guy was convicted. I suspect, as usual, there is more to the story than the media are letting on.

I remember going to Cub and Scout meetings, on public transport, wearing a large "scout knife", antler handle and all, on my belt. The blade was maybe seven or eight inches long !! I still have it somewhere. Sometimes I also carried my staff, a five foot or so stout stick. I'd have been banged up for that nowadays. How times have changed.

This is another good one. It seems in this case the blade was 3 inches long and the reason for carrying was considered reasonable in the end.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...old-force.html

I wonder if it still had the tweezers & toothpick when he finally got it back...

Having such a bladed weapon is not an offence, having it without a reason is. Think of Sikhs

As I said, I do not believe this chap was convicted for having it in the circumstances required. Unfortunately, the truth isn`t sexy enough most of the time.

Forty years ago, when I was 16, I took the $100 I'd saved down to Eatons and bought a brand new Remington 12 ga. pump gun and brought it home on the city bus. That probably wouldn't fly these days either. The current Cdn Tire flyer has swiss army mechanic's model for about $10. I use the camper model becaause I like the saw, but that's still a good deal.