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Ontario MPP wants Truth and Reconciliation Day to be paid holiday – Vancouver Sun

by ahnationtalk on September 30, 202433 Views

Sep 30, 2024

It is a statutory holiday for federally regulated workers and employees in some other provinces such as British Columbia

TORONTO — Ontario’s only First Nation representative at Queen’s Park plans to soon table proposed legislation, in his own Indigenous language, to have the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation declared a paid provincial holiday.

The day is a federal statutory holiday, but not a provincial one in Ontario.

New Democrat deputy leader Sol Mamakwa, who represents the northwestern riding of Kiiwetinoong, wants Ontario to follow the federal government’s lead and said he hopes Premier Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives will support the idea.

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