Posted on 04/20/2015 11:59:41 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
OTTAWA - Whole Foods may be in a heap of trouble after police laid charges Monday alleging an location was open on Good Friday.
Ottawa police spokesman Const. Chuck Benoit said Whole Foods management will appear in court next month to answer to four charges under the Retail Business Holidays Act.
The charges are for carrying on business during a holiday.
The manager of the location was served the paperwork Monday.
"It's an order to attend court," Benoit said.
By law most stores must remain closed on statuatory holidays such as Good Friday and Christmas, though there are exceptions for small businesses and businesses operating in designated tourism zones, the act says.
Fines upon conviction range as high as $50,000 or the gross holiday sales, whichever is greater, the act says.
Whole Foods told Postmedia Network earlier this month the store believed Lansdowne Park, which is off the Rideau Canal in central Ottawa, was a designated tourist area. The company will appear in court May 21.
It occurred to me 15 minutes ago, that we sometimes went out to eat after church - all 6 of us.
Which means ‘we’ were ‘forcing’ restaurants to be open on Sundays, thus ‘forcing’ some people to have to work that day!
Then it was back to home, where the older kids did homework - on SUNDAY!!! Who didn’t do homework at the last minute??!
The fact that in Canada you can be fined and convicted of a hate crime for speaking what God’s Word says.
http://catholicexchange.com/canada-orders-pastor-to-renounce-his-faith
Truly. Of course there was the “Sunday drive” if entertainment was needed. :-)
What fun the Sunday drive was, with an ice cream at the end of it.
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