I'm a Canadian vaper as well.
I decided to quit smoking before my 30th birthday and have been vaping exclusively for over a month so far and I feel like I've regained all of my rights again! It is very liberating to be able to vape at my desk at work, at a bar, on the street, and at any any other location I happen to be.
I don't try to hide my vaping -- I use an eGo-T battery with a tank system on top that tends to be very obtrusive, and I wear it on a lanyard around my neck. My employer (a major Western telecom firm) and the property management company have officially allowed the use of personal vapourisers in the building. Just today, during a team meeting, I was happily blowing plumes and receiving support from my manager and co-workers for my success in quitting smoking.
I've encountered one negative Nelly, a smoker who envious that I was able to "skirt the rules" to quote her, but she had no answer when I replied that the only reason that indoor smoking was banned was due to the harm it caused others, which my vaping does not.
Every time notice somebody looking at my curiously, I tuck the PV into my breast pocket with the tank protruding. People seem to show visible relief when they realize that it's not ignited. As a precaution, I store home-made cards quoting the relevant (Alberta) law:
TOBACCO REDUCTION ACT 2008
Chapter T-3.8
“(i) “smoke” means to smoke, hold or otherwise have control over an ignited tobacco product”
This is neither ignited, nor is it tobacco.
There has never been a need for me to present one of these cards. I have documented my experience at my personal website that I run at a cost to myself:
gkoneill.ca. This is my first post on ECF and if referencing my own site is against the rules, may a mod please redact the last two sentences of my post.