Retail Council Hopes Common Council Will Be Pro-Business

There doesn't seem to be any appetite on Common Council to change Sunday shopping hours from noon to 5pm. The Saint John Board of Trade has made clear it doesn't want to see any change must to the dismay of the Retail Council of Canada. 

The Retail Council's Jim Cormier in the Atlantic Region tells CHSJ News the Fredericton Chamber of Commerce has adopted a different view and that has prompted Fredericton Council to at least look at the issue.

Cormier says Florenceville-Bristol eliminated its bylaw on restricting the hours of Sunday shopping because of being so close to Houlton, Maine and Riverview did it before Christmas because of its proximity to Moncton.