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Well said Keith P.


"Keith P." <keithp@rocketmail.com> wrote in message
news:c39d8071.0209220505.32c5dbce@posting.google.com...
> Ah, welcome to usenet in Nova Scotia, where all the sticks emerge from
> the mud long enough to decry any change to our society that would
> benefit us.
>
> Don't want to work on Sunday? Then don't. It's easy. Just say no. God
> forbid that we should give ourselves an opportunity to create some new
> employment in this province. After all, the last thing many Nova
> Scotians want is a job.
>
> Want to spend quality time with the family you say? Great. Maybe you
> can go to the Casino. Or a restaurant, or even a bar. Go to the
> movies. Go to a bookstore. Or a souvenir shop. You can even go buy a
> new mobile home for the family. Just don't go to Wal-Mart or Sobey's.
> Yeah, that makes perfect sense.
>
> Oh, but we're _different_ than all those other heathen provinces that
> allow their citizens to actually buy things on Sunday, you say. It
> makes us *special*.
>
> Yeah, we're different all right. The laughingstock of North America. A
> backwater populated by a bunch of hicks that doesn't know what's good
> for them. A stupid province that has an opportunity to help itself out
> but instead prefers to go begging cap in hand to Ottawa pleading for
> more handouts.
>
> Even sleepy old PEI, even formerly laughable Nfld, even pathetic old
> NB has it. But this province chooses to protect a small minority of
> retail workers in certain types of stores for reasons that make
> absolutely no sense, while denying citizens a choice of where to spend
> their money and how to live their lives.
>
> And if you're not of the Christian faith, and Sunday isn't your day of
> worship, tough shit. You're not really one of us anyway, are you? You
> sure as hell can't trace your origins back to Scotland, and that's
> really all that matters in this province.
>
> Fortunately, this govt finally seems to have realized that their
> present position on Sunday shopping can cost them the next election.
> They will be making an announcement this fall. The only thing you can
> count on is that it won't go far enough.