Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsri!utegc!utai!ubc-vision!mprvaxa!acton From: acton@mprvaxa.UUCP Newsgroups: can.politics Subject: Daycare + Sunday Shopping Message-ID: <831@mprvaxa.UUCP> Date: Tue, 6-Jan-87 11:10:12 EST Article-I.D.: mprvaxa.831 Posted: Tue Jan 6 11:10:12 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 6-Jan-87 20:35:22 EST Reply-To: acton@mprvaxa.UUCP (Don Acton) Distribution: can Organization: Microtel Pacific Research, Burnaby, B.C., Canada Lines: 25 Over the Christmas holidays I came across the following information in various newspaper reports. Sunday Shopping: According to a professor at the University of British Columbia Sunday shopping in BC has moved into the realm of a leisure time activity. According to the retail merchants association the introduction of Sunday shopping has resulted in a 7% increase in sales over what they would have expected without it. (To me this is what one would expect if the point made by the professor is correct.) Day Care: The costs of a national daycare program comparable in scope to our medical program would cost taxpayers over 11 billion dollars a year. (I believe that would imply about a 10% increase in the federal budget.) This would seem to indicate that even a small national daycare program would cost at least several billion dollars and that would hardly please the groups lobbying for it the loudest. Donald Acton