“Reconciliation can’t happen without space to remember”: CUPE Ontario condemns Ford Conservative refusal to make Truth and Reconciliation a provincial holiday

When the Federal Government announced that, in observance of National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, September 30th would become a statutory holiday in Canada, CUPE Ontario saw this is a necessary step in the right direction. It’s therefore disappointing and revealing that, unlike British Columbia, Manitoba, and Nova Scotia, the Ford Conservatives will not formally recognize the day…