Ready, Aye, Ready

Link: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2008/04/11/bc-gift-card-ban.html

This may well be the first and last time you hear me say something nice about the BC Liberals, but good for them on making it illegal to expire prepaid gift cards.

Regardless of whether one feels that gift cards are a bad idea to start with (and there are a lot of good reasons), something that's paid for should not arbitrarily be canceled simply because a certain date has passed. I feel the same about car wash tickets too...