Feb 251987
 

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On February 25, 1987, Global TV did a news story on Marc Emery’s and Robert Metz’s submissions to the London meeting of the Select Committee on Sunday Shopping. Business owners testified that they wanted Ontario’s ban on Sunday shopping to remain in place. Only Emery and Metz were heard to call for a repeal of the ban. Continue reading »

Feb 251987
 

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On February 25, 1987, a Select Committee looking at the Retail Business Holidays Act (after the Act survived a Charter challenge in the Supreme Court of Canada, in December of 1986) held a hearing in London, Ontario. Freedom Party of Ontario Action Director testified to the committee in his capacity as a book store owner (City Lights Book Store), and Freedom Party president Robert Metz appeared on behalf of Freedom Party of Ontario. The Chair of the committee was happy finally to hear from people who were opposed to the ban: he was sure that the general public opposed the ban too. Continue reading »

Feb 011987
 

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Report to the Ministry of Municipal Affairs: Recommended Changes To Section 217 of the Municipal Act (Business Improvent Areas-BIAs). A Freedom Party of Ontario report to the Ontario Legislature, penned by Freedom Party Action Director Marc Emery. Continue reading »

Jan 011987
 

Contents:
FP Action Campaign Take Off in Ontario, Aurora, Newmarket, Hamilton, Burlington, Metro Toronto, Mississauga, London, St. Thomas, Keswick, Sarnia; (Openers) Metz discusses plans for 1987, Censorship Alert campaign; An Experience to Remember, Michael Emerling (Essence of Political Persuasion), Photos from FP Workshop – October 1986; BIA Campaign Mushrooms Into Major Effort, Merchants meet ant-BIA Group – excerpt (Hamilton Spectator); FREEDOM Party goes to the marketplace to support Sunday Choice, Marc Emery on CFPL-TV, Sunday Shopping, Retail Business Holidays Act; Scores of Charges Laid Over Sunday Shopping (Globe & Mail), Group Stages Blitz for Sunday Choice (Toronto Sun), Grocery Stores Continue to Defy Closing Law (St. Thomas Times Journal); Freedom Party Newspaper Campaign; Election 1987, election call expected in Spring; List of FP Publications.. Continue reading »