This video was released to promote the party’s 2011 election plank: End Forced Religious Observance: Choice in Shopping .
Transcript: “Ontarians celebrate hundreds of religious holy days every year. But, in 1975, Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives passed a special law that has fined and imprisoned retailers who have opened their stores on Christian holy days. A Freedom government will scrap the Conservatives’ shopping ban. You will no longer be forced to observe any religious holy days. An Ontario that doesn’t play favourites. Freedom Party.” Continue reading »


April 22, 2011 – Freedom Party today released its 2011 election
“In 1975, Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives introduced legislation that fined some retailers, and sent others to jail, for opening their stores on Christian holy days such as Good Friday and Easter Sunday. The law remains in force to this day. A 2011 election plank released today by Freedom Party of Ontario calls for the elimination of forced religious observance…”
AUDIO – DESCRIPTION:
