Hi all,
We recently moved from the US to Quebec, Canada and our 2 and a half year old is still RFing (Britax Boulevard CS). She's within the limits for the seats she's using, but my brother in law mentioned to my husband something about Canadian law saying you have to FF from 1 year and on. That didn't make any sense to me, so I went looking on any official Quebec/Canada websites. I didn't find anything that said you couldn't RF after 1 year, and my hubby mentioned the issue again to my BIL who then started talking about something to do with the standards in Canadian car seats being set to accommodate overweight kids.
Hubby and I had a huge argument over this today because I could not figure out what BIL's point was, and hubby was trying to explain and I just was NOT "getting it."
It makes no sense to me to have to FF any child arbitrarily at one year old. I'm guessing either BIL has his information wrong or hubby interpreted it wonky.
We also just bought a Graco MyRide 65 (Canadian) and I have to get another carseat anyway considering I've just learned that we aren't supposed to use one we bought in the USA (which is a shame because our Britax is pretty new).
So what say you, Canada? Are there actually any laws restricting anyone from having their child rear face past one year?
Thanks!
We recently moved from the US to Quebec, Canada and our 2 and a half year old is still RFing (Britax Boulevard CS). She's within the limits for the seats she's using, but my brother in law mentioned to my husband something about Canadian law saying you have to FF from 1 year and on. That didn't make any sense to me, so I went looking on any official Quebec/Canada websites. I didn't find anything that said you couldn't RF after 1 year, and my hubby mentioned the issue again to my BIL who then started talking about something to do with the standards in Canadian car seats being set to accommodate overweight kids.
Hubby and I had a huge argument over this today because I could not figure out what BIL's point was, and hubby was trying to explain and I just was NOT "getting it."
It makes no sense to me to have to FF any child arbitrarily at one year old. I'm guessing either BIL has his information wrong or hubby interpreted it wonky.
We also just bought a Graco MyRide 65 (Canadian) and I have to get another carseat anyway considering I've just learned that we aren't supposed to use one we bought in the USA (which is a shame because our Britax is pretty new).
So what say you, Canada? Are there actually any laws restricting anyone from having their child rear face past one year?
Thanks!