Sources: La Presse Canadienne and Canada public holidays. The Canadian province of Ontario recently declared a new February public holiday (our post of October 11). However, recently questioned in federal Parliament, Canada's Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, declared that the new Ontario public holiday would not be a holiday for federal civil servants, justifying his decision by the fact that federal civil servants already have 11 holidays, the same as the other citizens of Ontario will have after this new public holiday comes into force.
Saturday, October 20, 2007
Canada Federal Services Will Not Observe New Ontario Public Holiday
Sources: La Presse Canadienne and Canada public holidays. The Canadian province of Ontario recently declared a new February public holiday (our post of October 11). However, recently questioned in federal Parliament, Canada's Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, declared that the new Ontario public holiday would not be a holiday for federal civil servants, justifying his decision by the fact that federal civil servants already have 11 holidays, the same as the other citizens of Ontario will have after this new public holiday comes into force.
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