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Originally Posted by PsYcNeT
The Lord's Day Act.
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Doesn't this, um, not exist anymore since 1985?
http://www.canlii.org/en/ca/scc/doc/...5canlii69.html? Making this a pretty good example of how it's a waste of time to legislate religious principles?
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Originally Posted by Supreme Court of Canada
Since the acknowledged purpose of the Lord’s Day Act, on long‑standing and consistently maintained authority, is the compulsion of religious observance, that Act offends freedom of religion and it is unnecessary to consider the actual impact of Sunday closing upon religious freedom. Legislation whose purpose is found to violate the Charter cannot be saved even if its effects were found to be inoffensive.
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