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From: jdd@db.toronto.edu (John DiMarco)
Subject: Re: Sunday shopping
Message-ID: <1989Dec20.122639.1563@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
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Date: 20 Dec 89 17:26:39 GMT
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There's a law which says that stores cannot be open on Sundays (with certain
exceptions). The police are merely enforcing that law. Don't blame them for
doing their jobs.

The most appropriate way to change a law you don't like is via the political
process. Write your MPP and tell him/her how you feel about Sunday shopping.

I don't think Sunday shopping is such a good thing, however. Remember:
if a store is open on Sunday its employees have to work on Sunday. The retail
sector employs a large chunk of the Canadian workforce. If Sunday becomes
just another workday for the retail sector, its character as a more-or-less
national day of rest is seriously diminished. 

It is a good thing to have one day of the week on which most people do
not work. It generally assures that families and friends will have at least 
one day a week to do things together. That's pretty important for many people,
including myself.

And then there's the religious factor. The predominant religion in Canada
is Christianity, which holds (for the most part) Sunday as a day of rest.
Keeping Sunday a day in which most people do not work seems to be the best
way of accomodating the most people.

John
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