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Greater Sudbury Police have charged six businesses with being open improperly on Family Day.
"We are not releasing the names of the businesses," Const. Bert Lapalme said Tuesday. "They are all drug stores."
Police say they received complaints from the public about eight drug stores in advance of the provincial holiday.
According to the Retail Business Holidays Act, the drug stores cannot be open if they are larger than 7,500 square feet in size or sell items other than pharmacy-related products and sundries.
"They cannot sell groceries," said Lapalme.
When officers went to check on the eight drug stores cited in the complaints, two were not open and were not charged. But with the other six, officers saw infractions of the act and laid charges.
A summons to attend court was issued to an employee of each of the six charged drug stores.
According to the Ontario Ministry of Government Services, the minimum fines for opening businesses on days when retail operation is prohibited are $500 for the first offence, $2,000 for a second offence and $5,000 for a third or subsequent offence.
Retail outlets may be fined up to $50,000 or the total amount of gross sales for the holiday, whichever is greater.
In some municipalities, local bylaws allow stores to remain open in locations established as tourist areas by specific municipal bylaws.
I suppose doing business with customers is not family oriented.
2 comments:
I think the idea is to give the maximum number of workers time off to be with their families and friends. Surely shoppers can take the occasional day off that pastime in order to let those who serve them have a break.
Frances, Mussolini's daughter, thinks it's the State's job to scapegoat private businesses on behalf of families who apparently are working seven days a week the rest of the year, or maybe they just can't be bothered to find time to be with their families at any other time because it hasn't been State approved?
Not to mention the additional cost associated with policing this authoritarianism and it's concomitant court expenses when these taxpayer dollars could be used to fight real property crime.
If people really believe it is up to the State to provide time for us to be with our families then "family" no longer has any meaning.
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