Sunday shopping hours in Manitoba are going to be relaxed

Another province in Canada is going to relax Sunday shopping hours?? Reading this article has me fuming. I thought Nova Scotia was the last place in Canada to have wide open Sunday shopping. http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/editorials/sunday-shopping-for-votes-148055965.html. Apparently Manitoba has limited hours that you can shop on Sundays.


http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/editorials/sunday-shopping-for-votes-148055965.html

" Eight months ago, Premier Greg Selinger said the NDP had no plans to change the province's Sunday shopping laws. The premier said he believed the existing law struck the right balance between access to shopping and providing opportunities for families to spend time together."



Why the sudden change? You obviously cannot trust any party for making decisions and keeping them. All across Canada, times are tough. Gas prices have risen along with power, food, you name it. How is extending hours going to give anybody any more money to spend? This is an obvious move to please business' who don't care about their employees. It's a move to destroy what little small business makes on a Sunday with limited hours. Manitoba has limited Sunday shopping hours 12-6. This will all change with this government who obviously is caving in to business. So many people do not realize by supporting Sunday shopping, it will effect them down the road. Banks have opened up in our area on Saturday and Sundays. At one point in time, this job was a Monday to Friday job. Workers who are off on week-ends don't think that Sunday shopping will effect them, but it will when pressure amounts to open them too. As a society, we have become a monkey see, monkey do society. If you jump over a bridge, does it mean I have to? If governments are under pressure to look after the environment, how is allowing Sunday shopping wide open a step forward? Encouraging cars on our roads seven days a week 24/7isn't going to work. Manitoba could have taken a step forward and banned Sunday shopping all together.

Using cross border shopping is an excuse to open stores with no limited Sunday shopping. With stores closed, power can be saved with the lights off. Families would also have that time to spend together. Family time should be important to all Canadians. It's obvious by the number of provinces that have legislated a Holiday just for families to be together (Family day). They gave one day, when we can have 52 Sundays. Don't get me wrong, a family day would be great, but let's get the 52 of those days back all across Canada.





http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/story/2012/04/17/mb-province-taxes-budget-user-fees-manitoba.html

What is the difference between a binding plebiscite and binding arbitration?

On  March 7th, Openfile.ca reports on a suggestion to do a story on Sunday shopping five years later: "no such thing as a binding plebiscite" .  Since then I have wondered

and thought really hard about this and honestly I have more questions.

 

“There is no such thing as a binding plebiscite,” said Dana Doiron, Director of Policy and Communications at Elections Nova Scotia.

“It’s a test of the wind.” “A plebiscite or referendum is not really binding on political bodies in legal terms,” said Wayne MacKay, who teaches constitutional and public law at Dalhousie University.

 

So now I have questions. What is the difference between a binding plebiscite and binding arbitration?  On Saturday, March 24, 2012, I submitted this story for a suggestion to openfile.ca and asked them

to report on it . Needless to say there wasn't a response from openfile.ca. I have to wonder if a binding plebiscite isn't real, then is binding arbitration real?  Obviously, we are not being told the truth as to what's really happening here?  Nova Scotians deserve to know the truth. After all, we had a binding plebiscite in 2004. What do they mean by binding? None of these questions have been answered. Our money was spent on a democratic vote and excuses are made so that our politicians are not held accountable for ignoring a democratic vote. It's time we speak up. You can contact openfile.ca here- http://halifax.openfile.ca/contact-openfile . Ask

them why our suggestion wasn't reported? Our provincial newspaper would also be a good place to ask why they are not reporting this story. Contact them here- http://thechronicleherald.ca/about/contact-us

You can also contact our local radio talk show hosts and ask them why they are not reporting this? A binding plebiscite isn't real? No such a thing? Funny as it seems, this is news

and our radio talk show hosts don't say a word about it. Doesn't this have you wondering just a bit?  Contact News957 - http://www.news957.com/shows