The timing of this announcement is strategic of course. The federal Liberals waited until the last year of its term to roll this one "call to action" out. Coming off the first "Truth" statutory holiday (maybe in September next year), a month later we will be in the October 2019 election.
As such, how do you think the 260,000 federal government employees are going to vote? Or are going to be sucked into voting Liberal by the culture and water cooler chats that permeate those hallowed halls of government services. Good times to be a federal governement employee right now (and a teacher, fire man/woman, police man/woman, transit employee...).
This sad and unfortunate occasion could have been observed and recognized in other ways (the same goes for Victoria city council's actions). Having a holiday is not a very good solution. Sadly Remembrance Day for example, thanks to such a statutory holiday in B.C. (not here in Ontario) is barely holding on to its significance. If it wasn't for the Whistler ski season opening another two weeks later than that, Remembrance Day in B.C. would sadly be a meaningless, barely observed holiday. Does the government honestly think a statutory holiday is a solution whereby the nation will be marking the "...“painful legacy” of Canada’s residential schools" on their way out of town for an extended break?
Meanwhile, and as a result, Canadian (and international) economists must be adjusting Canada's GDP downward on top of trade wars, increased minimum wages, higher interest rates and a government owned pipeline that will never come to fruition.
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