Editing Extended warranty (section)

=== Canadian province of Québec ===
Based upon the Québec civil code and the ''Loi sur la protection du consommateur'' every merchant is responsible to uphold the legal guarantee of a product. This legal guarantee protects the consumer from: purposefully hidden malfunctions, defaults that could not be readily identified at the moment of purchase, the guarantee that the item purchased can be used for its stated uses and finally guarantees a reasonable life expectancy based on the price paid. This guarantee survives even when the initial purchaser sells his goods to another person. A merchant cannot ask a consumer to pay any fees or shipping charges in order to be eligible to receive their legal guarantee. The [[Office de la protection du consommateur|office for the protection of consumers]] does not take a particular stance towards extended warranties. However, they recommend that consumers should be vigilant and question themselves whether the warranty really adds anything to the already applicable legal warranty. Finally they point out that the number of consumers who go to court against merchants in order for them to apply the legal warranty is almost proportional to the number of consumers who take legal means against a merchant for failing to respect extended warranties they have sold.<ref>[http://www.opc.gouv.qc.ca/publications/dep_garantie_garantie.asp Office de la protection du consommateur] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070818163424/http://www.opc.gouv.qc.ca/publications/dep_garantie_garantie.asp |date=August 18, 2007 }}</ref>