AUDIO – DESCRIPTION:
In this recording, Freedom Party member and former Ontario Vice-president Lloyd Walker calls Jim Chapman, host of “Talk of the Town”, and convinces Chapman that there should be no ban on opening one’s retail store on Boxing Day. On December 16, 1996, Ontario’s legislature passed an amendment to Ontario’s Retail Business Holidays Act which removed Boxing Day from the list of days on which the opening of most retail stores is prohibited). The ban on retail shopping on Boxing Day took effect on December 19, 1996.
Audio Details:
Radio Program: Talk of the Town
Host: not known.
Caller: Lloyd Walker (member, Freedom Party of Ontario)
Aired: After December 4, 1996
Radio Station: 1290 AM, CJBK – London, Ontario
Recorded: After December 4, 1996
NOTE: This is the eighth of eight recordings on cassette tape-2012-184.
File Format: MP3
File Size: 8.2 MB
Duration: 3 mins, 23 secs.
URL: https://freedomparty.on.ca/archive/audio/1996-12-xx.cjbk-chapman.walker-boxing-day-shopping-ban.tape-2012-184.8.mp3