NORTH VAN CITY DECIDES

No referendum

for Sunday shopping

No referendum will be
held this fall on the subject
of Sunday and holiday
shopping in North Van-
couver City.

City council, meeting in-
camera as a policy com-
mittee, decided after a 40-
Minute session Monday
night to accept the
provincial Bill 56 without
any additions.

This means that when the
policy recommendation is
accepted, City businesses
will be subject to the
provincial Bill 56 - the
Holiday Shopping Act that
comes into effect next year.

The act” restricts
businesses from opening on
Sunday unless they = are
included in a group specified
by the legislation.

City council last week
requested a report on what
businesses in the City,
currently open on Sunday,
would be forced to close by
this legislation. This report
was Considered in-camera.

If municipalities wish to

make any types of businesses
not specified in the act
excempt from Sunday
closing, they must hold a
referendum and this what
the City had been con-
sidering prior to Monday.

A Holiday Shopping
Regulation by-law was even
on the agenda, but because
of the policy decision no
action was taken on it.

However, council will
request that the provincial
government clarify who is
responsible for the en-
forcement of Bill 56. Mayor
Jack Loucks said it was his

understanding that the
province and not the
municipality will be
responsible.

Before holding the in-
camera meeting, earlier in
the evening, council heard a
delegation from the Com-
mittee Opposed to Sunday
and Holiday Shopping.

George Johnson asked the
council not to hold any
referendum and to give the
provincial legislation at least

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He said that even if one
municipality widened the
scope of stores able to stay

open on Sunday, by
referendum, this would
spread to other

municipalities in the area.

“I don’t think there’s any
demand for Sunday shopping
from the consuming public,”
Johnson said.

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