Dear Editor::.
~ —- ¥our-~editorial “Sunday

Panic” indicates. a lack of
rstanding of the conse-
‘quences ‘that would ensue if

restrained by the present

Lord’s Day Act from
opening at the present time,’

no such restraint would be in
force after Bill 8 becomes-
effective. This year one of

First, it is obvious that
wide open shopping will
Tésult because Bill 8
stipulates that such hours be
allowed if a plebiscite in-
-dicates that a majority of the —
people of any municipality
. wants, them. Telephone
surveys by The Province and
- exp€rience’ in‘ the United

States are strong evidence of

what would happen.
Althéugh some large
retailers are morally

Dear Editor:

Re Sunday shopping.

It seems to me incredible
that our politicians, at all

levels of government, seem

to think it is their duty to
regulate and’ ‘intimidate poor
old “Joe Citizen”, who put
them. where they: are in the
first place..

Victoria it-seems will soon
be passing. Bill.8, which. will
allow municipalities to
decide what type of store
may remain open on a
Sunday.

Now our local mis-
representatives want to jump
on the band wagon and tell
tne voting public just whom
they are allowing to do

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the biggest retailers in the”

States will be open on al] but
one day, another on all but
three days.

The argument that this is
free enterprise in action does
not hold water: it is not free
_enterprise when all of the
people force their will on the
segment of .the population

‘ that is directly affected by

such action. The people
don’t vote on the hours of
any other industry so why

merchants open

business on a Sunday — it's
incredible.

In the past businesses have
been formed and they cither
‘grow successfully -or go
bankrupt. I think it should
be - left to the” business
community to decide if it is
profitable or a method of
community service to
remain open on Sunday.
Whi they are so smart as to
tell a business man, who is
risking his own money to
make a livelihood, when he
can open his doors?

Another thought is that an
‘extra. selling day -creates
"more employment and I’m
sure none of us think the
employment level is in good
shape.

At present, ona Sunday, I

ec

should they control by
plebiscite the hours of the
retailer? Since wide-open
hours would work greatest
hardship on the small family-
owned business, would it not
~be-closer-to_the spirit of free
enterprise to set hours
provincially so that com-
panies of all sizes have equal
opportunity to succeed,
based on merit?

As a retailer, I am con-
cerned about two groups of
people: my customers and
my employees; Bill 8 would
be against the best interests
of both. Since Bill 8 would
not put more money in the
pockets of the shoppers bul

can buy a variety of goods
from the drugstore, plants
from the local nursery,, gas
from many outlets, milk and

sugar from -the corner
grocery, a meal from a
dozen restaurants (with

booze). As my wife and I
both work, our shopping
time is restricted to
Saturdays and a couple of
late evenings a week. If we
wish to purchase a car or
some furniture we can not
do it on a Sunday, the one
day of the week we have the
most spare time. ©

To us Sunday shopping
would be most convenient
but the elected officials, who
are .being paid with my
Money, are about to stick

their noses in with more

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would cause wide open
shopping hours we would
have: greater cost without
compensating sates,
resulting inevitably in higher
prices’ to. the consumer.
Some retail employees
would have to work Sundays
and since the majority of
retail employees are women,
we would undoubtedly be
separating mothers from
their children on one of the
two days when schools are
closed.
There are hundreds of
arguments that I could go on
with but I will present just
one more. Angus Ree admits
to having received about 150

Sunday

regulations, or so it would
appear from the local
reporting. lt seems to me our
elected officials were
brought up in the bad. old
days of “The -Lerd's Day
Act” and are unable to
change their attitudes, let
alone consider the wishes of
those who elected them and
are paying their wages.

By the way I do not have a
business and have no axe to
grind.

Neville Bayly
North Vancouver

letters against crealing a
situation where Sunday
shopping could happen and
none the other way around.
And yet he has the
arrogance to admit that he
will vote for the bill (as do

Export taxes can
destroy Canada

Dear Editor:

Export Taxes are highly
discriminatory. They
penalize the producing
provinces and encourage
consumption in the rest of
the country. They are
wasteful and they are
divisive. They are anti-
Canadian because they give
Western separatists another
argument for breaking up
the country.

If Ottawa slaps an export
tax on natural gas it would
take $2 billion a year from
Alberta and more than $300

million annually from British. -

. many’ other

“ment

government,
members). This is a sad time:

for representative govern-

M.H. Walford |
West Vancouver

Columbia.

West. And it would be use:
to buy high priced foreign oil
instead. :
Taxation without repre
sentation is bad. enough.
Being plundered without any
thought of compensation is:
robbery. It is a crime which
five million Canadians won' :
tolerate for long!

Jack Davis, M.L.A.

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