Trudeau: Queen’s funeral to be marked by federal holiday in Canada

Trudeau says a final delegation attending the Queen's funeral is still in the works, but it will be a day of mourning for federal employees.

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    1. @RObear Hornchester Trudeau said it was up to each province to decide as to whether it would be a holiday or not , so if
      Our provincial leader doesn’t declare it a holiday it’s work and school as usual . Torontos Doug Ford said no holiday there .

  1. I haven’t worked in retail for several years in Ottawa, but when I did, the public servants honoured our war dead on Remembrance Day by making it one of the biggest shopping days of the year.

    I suppose retailers are now quickly ordering stock for this coming Monday’s day of mourning the Queen’s death.

    1. Yeah was a busy day in the bar too. Lots of ppl partying and drinking the night before bc they didn’t have to go to work. It’s the Canadian way to get a govt job and milk the taxpayer.

    2. Complain to your local Conservative premiere. This should be a day off for everyone. That’s provincial jurisdiction.

  2. For reference: “The Manual of Official Procedure for the Government of Canada says the prime minister should declare a national public holiday on the day of a monarch’s funeral. However, it notes that it is not binding on the prime minister to follow through with this.

    Canadians were previously given a day off to mourn King George VI following his sudden death in 1952, the last time a monarch passed away.”

    1. @Kyle Geldart Victoria Day holiday is the official birthday of whichever monarch is reigning at that time. It is named after Queen Victoria because she was the reigning monarch at confederation and when the tradition was started. The date routinely changed until it was set by royal proclamation in 1957. Many of the other commonwealth countries share the same sort of holiday but put it on different dates (usually in June).

      Victoria Day is only tangentially related to Queen Victoria, your statements are false.

  3. So does that mean that ONLY federal employees get the day off but all others (2nd class citizens) have to show up in order to get paid?

    1. @Dean Doxtator Wow, you are really not making sense, coming at this from a far off angle. Kinda on a tangent there huh? I have no clue to what you are referring to within this discourse.

    2. Federal meaning it is a holiday marked by the highest level of government which means it aplies as a holiday to provincess and cities

  4. It’s so very disappointing that only certain Canadians get to mourn Her Majesty on the day they lay her to rest!!….Why only federal employees AGAIN!!!!! Boooo to Ontario’s Premiere. I’m so pissed.

  5. Make this holiday for all.not just your federal workers …show you have powers to make it a cross the country national one….you have the power USE IT!!!

  6. Did I not read that King Charles requested. NO PRIVATE JETS. As the airport can’t handle the air traffic and no delegations. Would love to see him fly commercial

    1. Very true . It’s because it doesn’t give him any benefit at voting time he would
      rather brag about giving our tax dollars to India .

  7. Please stay out of Canada’s future. You have missed it terribly as a politician, which clearly you are not.

  8. Let me get this straight, taxpayers are going to pay for federal employees to have a day off in respect to the queen. OMG!!

    1. @Garry Suits

      You realize that whether or not remembrance day is recognized as a holiday is determined by the provinces right? In my province it’s a stat holiday. You’d probably be complaining though if Trudeau could force every province to recognize remembrance day as a paid stat holiday

    2. @Noah , We have reason to complain dude. Yeah the rememberance day holiday is a province by province thing, But that isnt this topic, Why should we pay for thier day off? how many times will this kind of thing be declared in the next decade? Go do the math of how much this 1 day off for ALL FEDERAL employees will cost the country.

  9. Taking a paid day off for the federal government…should help with the backlog of passport applications, student visa applications, and many things the federal government is behind on which they are still blaming on covid….honour the Queen by working and helping your country, maybe even stay in the office to 5:25pm.

  10. I am flabbergasted by the fact that the average Canadian hasn’t blockaded major intersections with tyre fires.

  11. These federal employees better actually be mourning that day… I want to see picture proof of tears rolling down their cheeks for a whole day after I get home at 5:30pm

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