Canada's Manitoba Province New Public Holiday On Third Monday In February

Sources: Press Communique of the Province of Manitoba and Canada public holidays. As we announced in our our post of April 8, Nancy Allan, the Minister for Labor and Immigration of the Canadian province of Manitoba, has introduced a bill in Parliament to create a new provincial public holiday in February.

• The date of this new public holiday seems now fixed as the third Monday in February, which would bring it in line with the similar provincial public holidays of the neighboring provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan.
• According to the press communique, opening hours during this new public holiday would be based on those of regular Sundays.
• The name of this new public holiday has not been set yet, so for the moment we will call it Family Day, as it is called in neighboring provinces (and since the law proposal stresses that spending more time with one's family is one of the reasons for this new public holiday).

One will also recall our news story of February 17, in which we reported on a British Columbia private member's bill to declare Flag Day, February 15, a federal holiday.