SUNDAY LAW IN CANADA

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, Cal. · Mar 20, 1907

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 33, No. 12.

SUNDAY LAW IN CANADA.

[From Portland (Ore.) Journal.]

VICTORIA, B. C., Feb. 23.—For some time great anxiety has been felt in this province over the effect which the new Lord's Day act, passed by the Dominion Parliament at the last session, would have on its coming into force March 1. The act is a very stringent one. It forbids Sunday excursions, the printing of Sunday papers, or the sale of foreign Sunday papers.

Speculation respecting it is now somewhat quieted by the fact that it is found on looking into it that prosecution under it must be with the consent of the attorney-general of each province. Thus upon the provincial governments is put the duty of saying whether the law shall be enforced stringently or be a dead letter.

It is felt that, in British Columbia at least, the government will not take the stand of approving prosecutions, regarding the law as being too severe.

Representatives of the Lord's Day Alliance waited on Attorney-general Fulton recently and asked him to approve prosecutions for the law's violation. Fulton gave no definite reply, preferring to consult other ministers in the government before doing so.

It is regarded as almost certain that the law will not receive local sanction.