Sources: Winipeg Free Press and Canada public holidays. In an announcement mirroring that recently made in the case of Ontario (see our post of October 20), Federal Treasury Board Secretariat spokesman, Pierre-Alain Bujold, confirmed that Manitoba's more than 11,200 federal government employees will not get the day off on the occasion of Manitoba's new provincial public holiday, Louis Riel Day.A provincial government spokesman, further added that Louis Riel Day did not apply to workers in federally-regulated industries (banking and broadcast industries, railroads, buses, inter-provincial trucking, airports, airlines, grain elevators, the CBC as well as employees of federal boards and agencies). However, local spokesmen for the major banks said they would honour the new Manitoba holiday and give their employees the day off with pay.
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