{"id":787,"date":"2014-05-16T21:12:46","date_gmt":"2014-05-17T05:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalfireworks.ca\/?p=787"},"modified":"2025-08-27T07:38:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T15:38:29","slug":"banning-tradition-fireworks-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalfireworks.ca\/pa\/banning-tradition-fireworks-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Banning the Tradition of Fireworks is Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fireworks have been used by Canadian families and communities for generations to celebrate significant events like Canada Day and other cultural events.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Canadian Press reports that Alberta is looking at banning consumer fireworks because the concern is that consumer fireworks such as Roman Candles and bottle rockets could cause wildfires or injure people who light them or watch them go off.\u00a0 Bottle rockets are not fireworks and are not legal in Canada. Consumer fireworks are a legal product in Canada and in the province of Alberta and most other provinces around the country.\u00a0 Legal fireworks are put through rigorous federal product testing before they can be sold and used.\u00a0\u00a0 Alberta already has the most restrictive provincial legislation for the sale and use of legal fireworks in the province.\u00a0 It is counter-intuitive to ban fireworks if the goal is to improve safety.\u00a0 Banning fireworks often leads to the illegal sale and use of the products and removes the opportunity to educate the public; which can result in higher rates of injury and property damage.<\/p>\n

According to national statistics, you are over 100 times more likely to be injured by candles than fireworks and over 20 times more likely to experience property damage from candles than fireworks.\u00a0 So what\u2019s next\u2026a ban on candles?<\/p>\n

How does Alberta and its municipalities ban a legal product that is federally regulated and can be purchased in neighbouring municipalities?\u00a0 Banning is not the answer to creating safer communities; instead we need fair and reasonable regulations like most of the municipalities have throughout the country.\u00a0 In fact, some jurisdictions that have bans in place continue to report fires attributable to fireworks.\u00a0\u00a0 In contrast, statistics show that jurisdictions that have permissive fireworks by-laws have reported a significant decrease in the number of fireworks related incidents.<\/p>\n

Dominique Allen is the Executive Director of the Canadian National Fireworks Association (www.national fireworks.ca), the national voice of the fireworks industry in Canada.\u00a0 Through advocacy and promotion of responsible government regulation of the industry, the CNFA is the leading national voice to advocate for the safe sale and use of legal fireworks in Canada.<\/i><\/p>\n

Dominique Allen<\/address>\n
Executive Director<\/address>\n
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604-853-2255<\/address>\n
Dominique@c-nfa.org<\/address>\n
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Fireworks have been used by Canadian families and communities for generations to celebrate significant events like Canada Day and other cultural events.\u00a0 The Canadian Press reports that Alberta is looking at banning consumer fireworks because the concern is that consumer fireworks such as Roman Candles and bottle rockets could cause wildfires or injure people who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,1],"tags":[7,9,8,10],"class_list":["post-787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-uncategorized","tag-alberta-fireworks","tag-consumer-fireworks","tag-fireworks","tag-tradition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalfireworks.ca\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalfireworks.ca\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalfireworks.ca\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalfireworks.ca\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalfireworks.ca\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nationalfireworks.ca\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalfireworks.ca\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalfireworks.ca\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalfireworks.ca\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}