>>Maybe it's because Quebec provincial law would consider this a contest and disallows it. I don't know if there is such a law but I've seen numerous contests in Canada that state 'void in Quebec'.
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>That's because companies need to allow additional time to offer the contest documentation in French as well. This is a request coming from the Canadian >National Board Language.

That's interesting. Learn something new every day.

>That's why they stated that 3 months ahead was not long enough. This is also why we were assuming that the next contest would have been ok for us to >participate as this would have been planned way ahead.

You would think wouldn't you? To be perfectly blunt and honest, I think the issue isn't the time required to do it but that M$ is based out of USA and just can't be bothered, which is to bad.

To add a little humour: I could rent you my mailing address here in Ontario to use for the contest :-)