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Originally Posted by redforever
This is not a good example to use. The Petroleum Club is a private club and as such, can set their membership as they wish. This will be no different than those bars that convert to private clubs to get around the no smoking bylaw that will soon come into effect in Calgary.
As long as the private club is fully registered, with all of its bylaws, rules of membership, operating guidelines and policies meeting the governments conditions for a private club, then that private club is free to operate according to their own bylaws.
And it is no different than the Royal Canadian Legion allowing smoking within their premises either. They too are a private club and can set conditions inside their facility as the membership sees fit.
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If that were the case then the PC still wouldn't allow Women or Jews or Blacks. As a private club you can allow your members to smoke but you cannot deny membership to a non-smoker - been tried here in ON.