Sources: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (Moncton, NB) and Canada public holidays (qppstudio.net). Reacting to renewed calls to have August 15, Acadian Day, made into a provincial, if not national, public holiday, New Brunswick's provincial Premier, Shawn Graham, indicated that this was not a priority for his government.This leaves supporters of this new public holiday with the hope that the 2009 federal elections bring the leader of the federal opposition party, Stéphane Dion, to power ... and that he keeps the promise he made last year (our post of August 17, 2007).
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