Quite true. I guess I’ve been sucked in to the usual way of expressing prices.

One of the problems with the implementation of sales taxes on Canada has always been how vendors are allowed to advertise prices without taxes as long as they include in tiny text something along the lines of ^^+tax^. That should never have been allowed, since its predecessor, the Manufacturers’ Sales Tax, was a Value Added Tax and only got piled on for each successive manufacturing/packaging step, so it wasn’t meant to be visible to the consumer. Even in cases where taxes vary by location, it would be trivial to require factoring the highest possible combination of taxes on adverts just to cover their ass.