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Sam Spam wrote:

> Read your original post it was the first thing you stated.
>
> """"I moved to HFX about a year ago 'cause there was no Sunday shopping.."""
>
> NOTE: Relocate the family : reason  no shopping.
>
> If all those "dudes" without a life to meet your high standards were parked
> at the Future Shop spending money would not that make for more room at the
> beach to for your BBQ or less traffic on the way to your blueberry field ?
>
> Sunday shopping then would have a benefit to those not wanting to do so.

I think that what is being overlooked is that Sunday shopping already exists in
Nova Scotia, as certain selected businesses are permitted to open. It is my
understanding that the Sunday shopping laws are based upon the size (as in
square footage) of the business - large establishments like Kent, Home Depot,
Zellers, Wal-Mart, etc. (not to mention Sobeys etc) are unable to open, while
smaller businesses have no such prohibition upon them. The exceptions being
pharmacies, restaurants, gasoline retailers, etc.

In other words, many of the individual businesses in the local malls actually
qualify to be open, except for the fact that the owners of those malls choose to
leave the doors locked on Sundays.

If a law existed which stated that government could order any business to keep
their doors open on Sundays (or on any day), the public would not stand for such
dictatorial policies, as government has no business telling merchants that they
must remain open.

Why then should the government be able to state when businesses must close?  Let
the marketplace decide. If it isn't profitable for a business to open on
Sundays, that business will remain closed. If it is profitable, they should have
the option to do so.

A fair compromise between the two camps would be to agree to unrestricted Sunday
shopping between 12:00 Noon and 5:00 PM.  Five hours won't kill anybody.

JMcC